@inproceedings{datta-etal-2026-early,
    title = "From Early Encoding to Late Suppression: Interpreting {LLM}s on Character Counting Tasks",
    author = "Datta, Ayan  and
      Marreddy, Mounika  and
      Mehler, Alexander  and
      Zhao, Zhixue  and
      Mamidi, Radhika",
    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.70/",
    pages = "1370--1391",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-444-6"
}