@inproceedings{jin-etal-2026-towards, title = "Towards Efficient Reasoning: Learning Causal Shortcuts for Diffusion Language Models", author = "Jin, Dian and Han, Kairong and Li, Baohong and Dong, Xinpeng and Hu, Zijing and Shan, Nuanqiao and Wu, Fei and Kuang, Kun", 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.292/", pages = "6710--6728", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }