@inproceedings{luo-etal-2026-surgmind, title = "{S}urg{M}ind-{R}1: Overcoming Reasoning Collapse in Surgical Vision-Language Models via Reinforcement Learning", author = "Luo, Yifan and Wang, Guoming and Xiao, Ling and Li, Juncheng and Tang, Siliang", 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.739/", pages = "17127--17143", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }