@inproceedings{hu-etal-2026-tracing-latent,
    title = "Tracing the Latent Threads: A Mechanistic Study of How {LLM}s Represent and Operationalize Race and Ethnicity Cues",
    author = "Hu, Shiyue  and
      Li, Ruizhe  and
      Gao, Yanjun",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1388/",
    doi = "10.18653/2026.findings-emnlp.1388",
    pages = "29530--29545",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}