@inproceedings{wang-etal-2026-beyond-dense,
    title = "Beyond Dense States: Sparse Transcoders as Causally Testable Operators for {LLM} Latent Reasoning",
    author = "Wang, Yadong  and
      Chen, Haodong  and
      Tian, Yu  and
      Geng, Chuanxing  and
      Liang, Dong  and
      Chen, Xiang",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1027/",
    pages = "23616--23629",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}