@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-vital,
    title = "{VITAL}: Visual-Semantic Dual Supervision for Enhanced and Interpretable Latent Reasoning in Medical {MLLM}s",
    author = "Li, Qiaoru  and
      Liang, Shaotian  and
      Chen, Jintao  and
      Sun, Haoran  and
      Cai, Yuxiang  and
      Yin, Jianwei  and
      Jiang, Yankai",
    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.97/",
    pages = "2267--2294",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}