@article{sparseshortcutsfacilitatingefficientfusi,
  title = {Sparse Shortcuts: Facilitating Efficient Fusion in Multimodal Large Language Models},
  author = {Jingrui Zhang and Feng Liang and Yong Zhang and Wei Wang and Runhao Zeng and Xiping Hu},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2602.00505},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00505},
}