@inproceedings{zhu-etal-2026-lexical,
    title = "Lexical Perturbations Disrupt {LLM} Reasoning: An Empirical Study of Attention Diversion",
    author = "Zhu, Jiaqian  and
      Zhang, Yang  and
      Ding, Junhua  and
      Yu, Xiaowei",
    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.720/",
    pages = "16706--16727",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}