December 3, 2025 A bit late, but got 3 papers into ACL/ACL Findings :D Flexible-length text infilling for discrete diffusion models (1st author) Zero-Shot Fine-Grained Image Classification Using Large Vision-Language Models (2nd author) SteerVLM: Robust Model Control through Lightweight Activation Steering for Vision Language Models (2nd Author) Also got a co-author paper in ACL :D Maximal Matching Matters: Preventing Representation Collapse for Robust Cross-Modal Retrieval