@inproceedings{kapadia-etal-2026-leap, title = "{LEAP}: Layer-wise Exit-Aware Pretraining for Efficient Transformer Inference", author = "Kapadia, Shashank and Mishra, Deep Narayan and Alugubelli, Sujal Reddy and Wang, Haoan and Vabbilisetty, Saipraveen and Bhatia, Rishi and Sharma, Anupriya", 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.52/", pages = "761--774", ISBN = "979-8-89176-394-4" }