@inproceedings{qiu-etal-2026-vlms,
    title = "Can {VLM}s Predict Future States? Bootstrapping World Models from Inverse Dynamics",
    author = "Qiu, Yifu  and
      Ziser, Yftah  and
      Korhonen, Anna  and
      Cohen, Shay B  and
      Ponti, Edoardo",
    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.1772/",
    pages = "35579--35600",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}