@inproceedings{hu-etal-2026-tinyalign, title = "{T}iny{A}lign: Boosting Lightweight Vision-Language Models by Mitigating Modal Alignment Bottlenecks", author = "Hu, Yuanze and Wang, Xinyu and Yang, Zhichao and Li, Gen and Qiu, Ye and Fan, Zhaoxin and Sun, Yifan and wu, Wenjun and Dong, Jin and Deng, Xiaotie", 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.223/", pages = "4585--4597", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }