@inproceedings{wu-etal-2026-preferences, title = "Not All Preferences Deserve Gradients: Understanding Gradient Utility in Offline Reasoning Alignment", author = "Wu, Hui and Cai, Hengyi and Zhao, Jinman and Chen, Xinran and Li, Ziheng and Zhao, Zhejun and Wang, Shuaiqiang and Li, Yuchen and Yin, Dawei", 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.2077/", pages = "47316--47330", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }