@inproceedings{juan-etal-2026-mimic, title = "{M}i{MIC}: Mitigating Visual Modality Collapse in Universal Multimodal Retrieval While Avoiding Semantic Misalignment", author = "Juan, Li and Ding, Chuanghao and Zhang, Xujie and Nguyen, Cam-Tu", 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.158/", pages = "3208--3220", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }