@inproceedings{ma-etal-2026-towards, title = "Towards Unified Multimodal Large Language Models: A survey", author = "Ma, Xu and Zhang, Yitian and Fu, Yun", 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.1853/", pages = "37212--37230", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }