@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-imitation,
    title = "The Imitation Game: When {LLM}s Learn to Reason Like Programs via Code-Centric Reasoning Data Synthesis",
    author = "Zhang, Jinyang  and
      Liao, Weibin  and
      Bao, Keqin  and
      Li, Sihang  and
      Wang, Shaobo  and
      Ye, Muyang  and
      Ding, Hongxin  and
      Fang, Yue  and
      Tang, Tianyi  and
      Huang, Fei  and
      Yang, Kexin  and
      Ren, Xingzhang  and
      Liu, Dayiheng",
    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.1561/",
    pages = "35579--35622",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}