@inproceedings{tikhomirov-savchenko-2026-selection,
    title = "The Selection Effect: Why Compact {LLM} Verifiers for Emotion Classification Fail Behind Encoder Confidence Gates",
    author = "Tikhomirov, Dmitry  and
      Savchenko, Andrey",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Junyi Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1049/",
    doi = "10.18653/2026.emnlp-main.1049",
    pages = "24095--24114",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}