@inproceedings{wen-etal-2026-just,
    title = "Not Just the Destination, But the Journey: Reasoning Traces Causally Shape Generalization Behaviors",
    author = "Wen, Pengcheng  and
      Zhu, Yanxu  and
      Sun, Jiapeng  and
      Zhu, Han  and
      Zhou, Yujin  and
      Chan, Chi-Min  and
      Guo, Yike  and
      Han, Sirui",
    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.1692/",
    pages = "38505--38532",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}