@inproceedings{maheswaran-desarkar-2026-understanding,
    title = "Understanding {\&} Isolating the Assistant State in Instruction-Tuned Models",
    author = "Maheswaran, Aishwarya  and
      Desarkar, Maunendra Sankar",
    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.2133/",
    pages = "48491--48511",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}