@inproceedings{wang-etal-2026-plam,
    title = "{P}la{M}: Training-Free Plateau-Guided Model Merging for Better Visual Grounding in {MLLM}s",
    author = "Wang, Zijing  and
      Liu, YongKang  and
      Wang, Mingyang  and
      Nie, Ercong  and
      Chen, Deyuan  and
      Zhao, Zhengjie  and
      Feng, Shi  and
      Wang, Daling  and
      Yang, Xiaocui  and
      Zhang, Yifei  and
      Schuetze, Hinrich",
    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/2026.findings-acl.1056/",
    pages = "21019--21035",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}