@inproceedings{wu-etal-2026-lame, title = "{L}a{ME}: Learning to Think in Latent Space for Multimodal Embedding via Information Bottleneck", author = "Wu, Peixi and Yang, Biao and Ma, Feipeng and Chai, Bosong and Lin, Bo and Yuan, Wei and Yang, Fan and Gao, Tingting and Li, Hebei and Sun, Xiaoyan", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1008/", pages = "21317--21329", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }