@inproceedings{zhu-feng-2026-attenuation, title = "From Attenuation to Attention: Variational Information Flow Manipulation for Fine-Grained Visual Perception", author = "Zhu, Jilong and Feng, Yang", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.findings-acl.927/", pages = "18586--18597", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }