@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-latent,
    title = "Latent Ordinal Evidence, Misaligned Outputs: Inference-Time Ordinal Lens Alignment for Multimodal {LLM}s",
    author = "Li, Haiming  and
      Liu, Yingsheng  and
      Zhu, Jingmin  and
      Yan, Siyuan  and
      Li, Xieji  and
      Sun, Jiajun  and
      Ge, Zongyuan  and
      yu, Zhen",
    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.927/",
    pages = "21328--21346",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}