@inproceedings{patel-etal-2026-bias,
    title = "Bias Before Disclosure: A Behavioral Audit of {LLM} Assistants Under User-Identity Uncertainty",
    author = "Patel, Hitesh Laxmichand  and
      Panda, Srikant  and
      Agarwal, Amit  and
      Kumar, Tejaswini  and
      Kumar, Bhargava  and
      Dua, Karan  and
      Singh, Jyotika  and
      Rafi, Taki Hasan  and
      Bangera, Mithil  and
      Bangera, Yeshil  and
      Vadithya, Gouthami",
    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.1758/",
    pages = "40088--40119",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}