@inproceedings{chen-etal-2026-sparse,
    title = "Sparse Growing Transformer: Training-Time Sparse Depth Allocation via Progressive Attention Looping",
    author = "Chen, Yao  and
      Chen, Yilong  and
      Yang, Yinqi  and
      Shang, Junyuan  and
      Zhang, Zhenyu  and
      Zhang, Zefeng  and
      Nie, Shuaiyi  and
      Wang, Shuohuan  and
      Sun, Yu  and
      Wu, Hua  and
      Wang, Haifeng  and
      Liu, Tingwen",
    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.307/",
    pages = "6168--6193",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}