@article{themaskisnotthemodelauditingprefixinvari,
  title = {The Mask Is Not the Model: Auditing Prefix Invariance in Attention, State-Space, and Hybrid Sequence Models},
  author = {Taebong Kim and Youngsik Hong and Minsik Kim and Sunyoung Choi and Jaewon Jang and Minseo Kim},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2608.22876},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.22876},
}