@inproceedings{cheng_focusing_2026,
 author = {Cheng, Zifeng and Qian, Lingyun and Jiang, Zhiwei and Wang, Cong and Yin, Yafeng and Shen, Fei and Zhou, Ao and Gu, Qing},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
 date = {2026-05-08},
 note = {ACL 2026 paper number: 70-MAIN},
 title = {Focusing Condition: Inference-Time Self-Contrastive Steering Elicits Better Conditional Text Embeddings in LLMs},
 url = {https://2026.aclweb.org/program/},
 year = {2026}
}