@article{crystalspontaneousemergenceofvisuallaten,
  title = {CrystaL: Spontaneous Emergence of Visual Latents in MLLMs},
  author = {Yang Zhang and Danyang Li and Yuxuan Li and Xin Zhang and Tianyu Xie and Mingming Cheng and Xiang Li},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2602.20980},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20980},
}