@inproceedings{kim-etal-2026-towards, title = "Towards Understanding Pause Token Fine-Tuning Dynamics: A Mode Retention Perspective", author = "Kim, Jaehyeon and Kim, Suhwan and Lee, Nakyung and Kim, Yeongoon and Seo, Jimin and Lee, Giho and Lee, Jungwoo", 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.1710/", pages = "38957--38980", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }