@inproceedings{fan-etal-2026-reasoning,
    title = "Is Reasoning Always Useful? Rethinking Reasoning Utility in Universal Multimodal Embeddings",
    author = "Fan, Wenxiao  and
      Fu, Jingling  and
      Liu, Luohang  and
      Shan, Xinyuan  and
      Ma, Lichen  and
      He, Yu  and
      Huang, Junshi  and
      Li, Yan  and
      Li, Kan",
    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.1698/",
    pages = "36277--36304",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}