@inproceedings{ijcai2026p81, title = {VERA: Identifying and Leveraging Visual Evidence Retrieval Heads in Long-Context Understanding}, author = {Pei, Rongcan and Li, Huan and Guo, Fang and Zhu, Qi}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-26}}, publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization}, editor = {Diego Calvanese}, pages = {715--723}, year = {2026}, month = {8}, note = {Main Track}, doi = {10.24963/ijcai.2026/81}, url = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/81}, }