@inproceedings{hou-etal-2026-knowing, title = "Knowing When to Critique: Task-Adaptive Metacognitive Regulation for Reliable {LLM} Reasoning", author = "Hou, Xinmeng and Chang, Ziting and Lu, Zhouquan and Qu, Bohao and Wan, Liang and Feng, Wei and Hu, Hai and Guo, Qing", 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.66/", pages = "1412--1450", ISBN = "979-8-89176-439-2" }