@inproceedings{wong-etal-2026-semantic, title = "Semantic Distractor Robustness in {LLM}s: Exploring the Underlying Mechanisms", author = "Wong, Xiangyu and Yu, Eugene J. and Xiong, Chenhao and Li, Zheng and Song, Yifan and Li, Sujian", 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.1573/", pages = "35820--35841", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }