@inproceedings{yang-etal-2026-training, title = "Training {LLM}s Beyond Next Token Prediction - Filling the Mutual Information Gap", author = "Yang, Chun-Hao and Feng, Bo-Han and Lai, Tzu-Yuan and Chen, Yan-Yu and Huang, Yin-Kai Dean and Lin, Shou-De", editor = "Zhang, Yue and Xu, Ruifeng and Purwarianti, Ayu and Rong, Tong and Suzuki, Jun", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the {A}sia-Pacific Chapter of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = nov, year = "2026", address = "Hengqin, China", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.248/", pages = "5539--5554", ISBN = "979-8-89176-439-2" }