@inproceedings{liu-etal-2026-alphatoken,
    title = "{A}lpha{T}oken: Decoupling Adaptation and Stability for Path-Aware Response Token Valuation in {LLM} Post-Training",
    author = "Liu, Qing  and
      Wu, Ou  and
      Du, Yi",
    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.866/",
    pages = "20028--20054",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}