@inproceedings{he-etal-2026-sufficiency, title = "From Sufficiency to Reflection: Reinforcement-Guided Thinking Quality in Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for {LLM}s", author = "He, Jie and Gutierrez Basulto, Victor and Pan, Jeff Z.", 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.213/", pages = "4883--4908", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }