@inproceedings{al-farib-etal-2026-state, title = "State Tracking vs. Attention in a Morphologically Rich Low-Resource Language: A Controlled {B}angla Case Study with {M}amba-3", author = "al Farib, Sahil and Meem, Momota Ahsana and Islam, Sheikh Redwanul and Arefin, Khan Md. Shams and Anik, Azizur Rahman", editor = "Adelani, David Ifeoluwa and Alabi, Jesujoba and Arnett, Catherine and Chang, Tyler and Downey, C.M. and Goldman, Omer and Li, Senyu and Miranda, Lester James Validad and Qi, Jirui and Stap, David and Winata, Genta Indra and Zhang, Xinyu Crystina", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning ({MRL} 2026)", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.22/", pages = "280--288", ISBN = "979-8-89176-469-9" }