@inproceedings{shi-etal-2026-vla, title = "{VLA}-Trace: Diagnosing Vision-Language-Action Models through Representation and Behavior Tracing", author = "Shi, Haoyuan and Ren, Xiancong and Zhang, Yingji and Zhang, Qinfan and Hu, Jiayu and Shan, Haozhe and Dong, Han and Lu, Jinpeng and Chen, Yinda and Zhang, Yi and Dai, Yong and Ju, Xiaozhu", 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.2076/", pages = "47280--47315", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }