@inproceedings{dalal-etal-2026-test, title = "More Test-Time Compute Can Hurt: Overestimation Bias in {LLM} Beam Search", author = "Dalal, Gal and Hallak, Assaf and Chechik, Gal and Ziser, Yftah", 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.165/", pages = "3785--3801", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }