@inproceedings{jeong-etal-2026-parentingllm, title = "{P}arenting{LLM} : Pacing Reasoning Maturity for Bidirectional Test-Time Scaling under Token Budgets", author = "Jeong, Seunghwan and Lee, Sugi and Park, WeiJin and Yeom, Ikjun and Woo, Honguk", 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.2244/", pages = "51058--51071", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }