@inproceedings{wang-etal-2026-irrelevant, title = "When Irrelevant Text Matters: Affine Margin Shifts in Multimodal Large Language Models", author = "Wang, Yinfeng and Yao, Zhiyuan and Fu, Zheren and Zhang, Lei and Mao, Zhendong", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.884/", pages = "20395--20417", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }