@inproceedings{palit-etal-2026-linear, title = "How Do Linear Probes Emerge? A Circuit-Tracing Framework with Concept-Targeted Attribution", author = {Palit, Vedant and Draye, Florent and Zhang, Terry Jingchen and Sch{\"o}lkopf, Bernhard and Jin, Zhijing}, 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.1728/", pages = "39424--39454", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }