@inproceedings{ding-etal-2026-breaking,
    title = "Breaking the Likelihood Trap: Variance-Calibrated Modulation for Large Language Model Decoding",
    author = "Ding, Yuanhao  and
      Li, Meimingwei  and
      Garces Arias, Esteban  and
      A{\ss}enmacher, Matthias  and
      Heumann, Christian  and
      Zhang, Chongsheng",
    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.1778/",
    pages = "40502--40528",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}