@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-stop,
    title = "Stop Before You Fail: Operational Capability Boundaries for Mitigating Unproductive Reasoning in Large Reasoning Models",
    author = "Zhang, Qingjie  and
      Fu, Yujia  and
      Wang, Yang  and
      Yan, Liu  and
      Wei, Tao  and
      Xu, Ke  and
      Huang, Minlie  and
      Qiu, Han",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, 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.1252/",
    pages = "28532--28554",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}