@inproceedings{khalil-mourad-2026-instruction, title = "The Instruction Tax on Factual Recall: Base Models Can Beat Their Instruction-Tuned Counterparts", author = "Khalil, Christophe and Mourad, Aya", editor = "Kalo, Jan-Christoph and Nakashole, Ndapa and Razniewski, Simon and Suchanek, Fabian M. and Vlachos, Andreas and McCallum, Andrew", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Automated Knowledge Base Construction ({AKBC} 2026)", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.akbc-1.40/", pages = "518--526", ISBN = "979-8-89176-464-4" }