@inproceedings{feng-etal-2026-generative,
    title = "Generative Giants, Retrieval Weaklings: Why do Multimodal Large Language Models Fail at Multimodal Retrieval?",
    author = "Feng, Hengyi  and
      Sheng, Zeang  and
      Qiang, Meiyi  and
      Li, Yang  and
      Zhang, Wentao",
    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.781/",
    pages = "15917--15933",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}