@inproceedings{zhao-etal-2026-scope,
    title = "{SCOPE}: Stepwise Calibration of Reasoning Confidence with Outcome-Grounded Prefix Evidence",
    author = "Zhao, Huaqin  and
      Zhou, Yifan  and
      Sun, Bolun  and
      Cao, Chao  and
      Li, Yiwei  and
      Ding, Zhaojun  and
      Zhang, Lu  and
      Liu, Tianming  and
      Lu, Jin",
    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.2609/",
    pages = "59284--59297",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}