@inproceedings{liu-etal-2026-hybridthinker, title = "{H}ybrid{T}hinker: Efficient Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Compressed Memory and Transient Thought Steps", author = "Liu, Xin and Zhao, Runsong and Liu, Xinyu and Ruan, Junhao and Huang, Pengcheng and Dong, Shichao and Xiao, Chunyang and Wang, Chenglong and Li, Changliang and Zhu, JingBo and Xiao, Tong", 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.1400/", pages = "31974--32000", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }