@inproceedings{wernlein-etal-2026-early,
    title = "Early Fusion with Contrastive Learning: A Lightweight Alternative for Multi-modal Classification",
    author = "Wernlein, Felix  and
      Jana, Abhik  and
      Sikdar, Sandipan",
    editor = "Piperidis, Stelios  and
      Bel, N{\'u}ria  and
      van den Heuvel, Henk  and
      Ide, Nancy  and
      Krek, Simon  and
      Toral, Antonio",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.717/",
    doi = "10.63317/3ioe7epfs78m",
    pages = "9129--9138"
}