@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-reasoning-confidence,
    title = "Reasoning Confidence Is Not Policy-Invariant: Calibrating Prefix Success under Model and Budget Shift",
    author = "Zhang, Xin  and
      Wei, Qiyu  and
      Yuan, Chenhan  and
      Ananiadou, Sophia",
    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.387/",
    pages = "8875--8891",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}