Please cite with the following BibTeX:
@article{caffagni2025seeing, title={{Seeing Beyond Words: Self-Supervised Visual Learning for Multimodal Large Language Models}}, author={Caffagni, Davide and Sarto, Sara and Cornia, Marcella and Baraldi, Lorenzo and Dovesi, Pier Luigi and Roohi, Shaghayegh and Granroth-Wilding, Mark and Cucchiara, Rita}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.15885}, year={2025} }