@inproceedings{airlangga-etal-2026-sparse, title = "Sparse Long Memory and Transition Bottlenecks Shape Positional Recall in Mamba Language Models", author = "Airlangga, Muhammad Cendekia and AlQuabeh, Hilal and Nwadike, Munachiso Samuel and Inui, Kentaro", 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.1944/", pages = "41448--41463", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }