@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-bimtokenizer,
    title = "{B}i{MT}okenizer: Preserving Semantic-Acoustic Balance in Low-Bitrate Speech Tokenization via Bidirectional State-Space Modeling",
    author = "Zhang, Xin  and
      Li, Lin  and
      Liu, Chuanbo  and
      Liu, Jianquan  and
      Lee, Kong Aik",
    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.406/",
    pages = "9346--9364",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}