@inproceedings{luo-etal-2026-vig, title = "{VIG}: Visual Information Gain as a Reward Signal for Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Compression", author = "Luo, Wen and Yi, Xiaohan and Huang, Xiaotao and Huang, Liqun", 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.219/", pages = "4574--4593", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }