@inproceedings{osman-etal-2026-activation, title = "Activation-Based Active Learning for In-Context Learning: Challenges and Insights", author = "Osman, Yaseen and Merrett, Geoff and Middleton, Stuart", editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o and Shu, Raphael and Drozd, Aleksandr and Akula, Arjun and Rogers, Anna and Giorgi, Salvatore and Benton, Adrian", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.9/", pages = "76--83", ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4" }