@inproceedings{yao-etal-2026-large,
    title = "How Do Large Language Models Learn Concepts During Continual Pre-Training?",
    author = "Yao, Barry Menglong  and
      Li, Sha  and
      Yao, Yunzhi  and
      Liu, Minqian  and
      Xia, Zaishuo  and
      Wang, Qifan  and
      Huang, Lifu",
    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.2437/",
    pages = "55302--55325",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}