@inproceedings{xi-etal-2026-cost,
    title = "The Cost of Compression: A Rate-Distortion Limit on Factual Hallucination",
    author = "Xi, Wang  and
      Xu, Shijia  and
      Guo, Rongfeng",
    editor = "Zhang, Yue  and
      Xu, Ruifeng  and
      Purwarianti, Ayu  and
      Rong, Tong  and
      Suzuki, Jun",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {IJCNLP}-{AACL} 2026",
    month = nov,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Hengqin, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-aacl.232/",
    pages = "4579--4598",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-444-6"
}