@inproceedings{fu-etal-2026-x3,
    title = "{X}$^3$-{OPD}: Distilling Reasoning into Large Audio-Language Models via On-Policy Alignment",
    author = "Fu, Dongjie  and
      Cao, Di  and
      Zhang, Zihan  and
      Jia, Wenxu  and
      Chen, Yifu  and
      Ji, Shengpeng  and
      Zhang, Yu  and
      Cheng, Xize  and
      Jin, Tao",
    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.1917/",
    pages = "43674--43687",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}