@inproceedings{kong-etal-2026-mechanism,
    title = "Mechanism Shift During Post-training from Autoregressive to Masked Diffusion Language Models",
    author = "Kong, Injin  and
      Lee, Hyoungjoon  and
      Jo, Yohan",
    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.1072/",
    pages = "24615--24643",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}