@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-attention,
    title = "Is the Attention Matrix Really the Key to Self-Attention in Multivariate Long-Term Time Series Forecasting?",
    author = "Li, Xinyu  and
      Chen, Kexi  and
      Shen, Jiajie  and
      Zheng, Ying  and
      Lu, Hong  and
      Zhao, Jin  and
      Wang, Xin",
    editor = "Liakata, Maria  and
      Moreira, Viviane P.  and
      Zhang, Jiajun  and
      Jurgens, David",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-long.853/",
    pages = "18757--18773",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6"
}