@inproceedings{shi-etal-2026-stir, title = "{STIR}: Self-Distilled Latent Tools for Dynamic Control of {LLM} Reasoning", author = "Shi, Zhenning and Zhu, Yijia and Shi, Junhan and Zhang, Xun and Wang, Lei and Miao, Congcong", 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.2278/", pages = "51814--51829", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }