@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-llms-hallucinate, title = "Why {LLM}s Hallucinate on Structured Knowledge: A Mechanistic Analysis of Reasoning over Linearized Representations", author = "Li, Shanghao and Han, Jinda and Wang, Yibo and Zhu, Yuanjie and Song, Zihe and He, Langzhou and Alghythee, Kenan Kamel A and Yu, Philip S.", 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.914/", pages = "19943--19956", ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6" }