@inproceedings{gu-etal-2026-model, title = "The Model Agreed, But Didn{'}t Learn: Diagnosing Surface Compliance in Large Language Models", author = "Gu, Xiaojie and Huang, Ziying and Hong, Weicong and Xie, Jian and Lou, Renze and Zhang, Kai", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.findings-acl.119/", pages = "2514--2529", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }