@misc{paruchuri2026costlanguagecentroiderasure,
      title={The Cost of Language: Centroid Erasure Exposes and Exploits Modal Competition in Multimodal Language Models}, 
      author={Akshay Paruchuri and Ishan Chatterjee and Henry Fuchs and Ehsan Adeli and Piotr Didyk},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2604.14363},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.14363}, 
}