@inproceedings{liu-etal-2026-faithfulness, title = "Does Faithfulness-Guided Alignment Hurt Accuracy? Unlocking Accurate and Faithful Post-Retrieval Reasoning", author = "Liu, Yu and Zhang, Wenxiao and Guo, Diandian and Cao, Cong and Yuan, Fangfang and Sun, Qiang and Liu, Yanbing and Hong, Jin B. and Ma, Zhiyuan", 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.1447/", pages = "33054--33072", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }