@inproceedings{guo-etal-2026-counteracting, title = "Counteracting the Matthew Effect in Self-Improvement of {LVLM}s through Head-Tail Re-balancing", author = "Guo, Xin and Xi, Zhiheng and Ding, Yiwen and Zhai, Yitao and Shi, Xiaowei and Cai, Xunliang and Gui, Tao and Zhang, Qi and Huang, Xuanjing", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-long.1010/", pages = "22104--22121", ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6" }