@inproceedings{cui-etal-2026-llms,
    title = "{LLM}s Regret Before They Say It: Early Detection and Compositional Architecture of Regret in Hidden States",
    author = "Cui, Xiangxiang  and
      Yang, Shu  and
      Huang, Tianjin  and
      Lin, Wanyu  and
      Hu, Lijie  and
      Wang, Di",
    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.215/",
    pages = "4923--4946",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}