@inproceedings{mittal-etal-2026-textnca,
    title = "{T}ext{NCA}: Neural Cellular Automata for Language Modeling via Hierarchical Local Attention",
    author = "Mittal, Avni  and
      Anand, Avinash  and
      Kumar, Ashutosh  and
      Kukreja, Dikshant  and
      Prasad, Kritarth  and
      Dulloo, Sushane  and
      Cambria, Erik  and
      Liu, Timothy  and
      Wang, Zhengkui  and
      Shah, Rajiv Ratn",
    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.1413/",
    pages = "30116--30141",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}