@inproceedings{wu-etal-2026-must, title = "When Must Faithful Chain-of-Thought Fail? An Information-Theoretic Bound and Its Empirical Limits", author = "Wu, Jikun and Guo, Dongxin and Yiu, SM", 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.1823/", pages = "41537--41555", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }