@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2025-finite,
    title = "Finite State Automata Inside Transformers with Chain-of-Thought: A Mechanistic Study on State Tracking",
    author = "Zhang, Yifan  and
      Du, Wenyu  and
      Jin, Dongming  and
      Fu, Jie  and
      Jin, Zhi",
    editor = "Che, Wanxiang  and
      Nabende, Joyce  and
      Shutova, Ekaterina  and
      Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2025.acl-long.668/",
    pages = "13603--13621",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-251-0"
}