@inproceedings{niu-etal-2026-understanding,
    title = "Does Understanding Inform Generation in Unified Multimodal Models? From Analysis to Path Forward",
    author = "Niu, Yuwei  and
      Jin, Weiyang  and
      Liao, Jiaqi  and
      Feng, Chaoran  and
      Jin, Peng  and
      Lin, Bin  and
      Li, Zongjian  and
      Zhu, Bin  and
      Yu, Weihao  and
      Yuan, Li",
    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.966/",
    pages = "22283--22303",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}