@inproceedings{hu-etal-2026-transferring, title = "Transferring Math Reasoning Abilities from {LLM}s to {MLLM}s via Causal-Aware Model Merging", author = "Hu, Yijie and Yang, Guanyu and Zhou, Zihao and Dong, Bin and Huang, Xiaowei and Huang, Kaizhu and Wang, Qiufeng", 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.1943/", pages = "41432--41447", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }