@inproceedings{tu-etal-2025-mlan,
    title = "{MLAN}: Language-Based Instruction Tuning Preserves and Transfers Knowledge in Multimodal Language Models",
    author = "Tu, Jianhong  and
      Ni, Zhuohao  and
      Crispino, Nicholas  and
      Yu, Zihao  and
      Bendersky, Michael  and
      Gunel, Beliz  and
      Jia, Ruoxi  and
      Liu, Xin  and
      Lyu, Lingjuan  and
      Song, Dawn  and
      Wang, Chenguang",
    editor = "Zhang, Yuji  and
      Chen, Canyu  and
      Li, Sha  and
      Geva, Mor  and
      Han, Chi  and
      Wang, Xiaozhi  and
      Feng, Shangbin  and
      Gao, Silin  and
      Augenstein, Isabelle  and
      Bansal, Mohit  and
      Li, Manling  and
      Ji, Heng",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2025.knowllm-1.6/",
    pages = "59--74",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-283-1"
}