@inproceedings{wang-etal-2026-small,
    title = "Small Reward Models via Backward Inference",
    author = "Wang, Yike  and
      Brahman, Faeze  and
      Feng, Shangbin  and
      Xiao, Teng  and
      Hajishirzi, Hannaneh  and
      Tsvetkov, Yulia",
    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.2629/",
    pages = "59776--59811",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}