The Dominance of Text Space: Unveiling the Asymmetric Nature of Cross-Modal Alignment in Large Language Models

@inproceedings{chen2026dominance,
  title = {The Dominance of Text Space: Unveiling the Asymmetric Nature of Cross-Modal Alignment in Large Language Models},
  author = {Linqing Chen and Hanmeng Zhong and Wentao Wu and Peng Zhou},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2026.acl-long.1699},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2026.acl-long.1699},
}