@inproceedings{chen-etal-2026-vlmguard,
    title = "{VLMG}uard-R1: Proactive Safety Alignment for {VLM}s via Reasoning-Driven Prompt Optimization",
    author = "Chen, Menglan  and
      Pang, Xianghe  and
      Dong, Jingjing  and
      Wang, WenHao  and
      Du, Yaxin  and
      Chen, Siheng",
    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.1986/",
    pages = "39914--39932",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}