@inproceedings{paulsen-etal-2026-synthetic, title = "Synthetic Semantic Supervision for Contrastive Code Representation Learning in Small Transformers: An Empirical Study", author = "Paulsen, Kenneth and Tambon, Florian and Papadakis, Mike and Yoo, Shin", 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.1905/", pages = "40595--40615", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }