@inproceedings{wei-etal-2026-infodensity, title = "{I}nfo{D}ensity: Rewarding Information-Dense Traces for Efficient Reasoning", author = "Wei, Chengwei and Kim, Jung-jae and Zhang, Longyin and Chen, Shengkai and Chen, Nancy F.", 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.601/", pages = "13829--13843", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }