@inproceedings{ratnakar-etal-2026-latentgate,
    title = "{L}atent{G}ate: Low-Latency Semantic Routing via Frozen-Backbone Probing of Small Language Models",
    author = "Ratnakar, Shivam  and
      Talasila, Abhiroop  and
      Doifode, Vinayak K",
    editor = "Li, Yunyao  and
      Rehm, Georg  and
      Tu, Mei",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics ({ACL} 2026)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-industry.153/",
    pages = "2284--2294",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-394-4"
}