@inproceedings{xu-etal-2026-small,
    title = "Small Models, Fewer Heads, More Forgetting: Sparse Attention Fine-Tuning for {SLM} Continual Learning",
    author = "Xu, Hao  and
      Song, Shezheng  and
      Peng, Long  and
      Liu, Xiaodong  and
      Li, Xiaopeng  and
      Jun, Ma  and
      Li, Shasha  and
      Yu, Jie",
    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.1099/",
    pages = "25205--25222",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}