@inproceedings{zheng-etal-2026-hmpo,
    title = "{HMPO}: Hybrid Median-length Policy Optimization for Chain-of-Thought Compression",
    author = "Zheng, Minghui  and
      Chen, Hongxu  and
      Ren, Huimin  and
      Xin, Hongsheng  and
      Qu, Xiaoyang  and
      Wang, Ze  and
      Yang, Shuling  and
      Peng, Ziyu  and
      Zhang, Kaike  and
      Pan, Zhou  and
      Zhan, 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.885/",
    pages = "20418--20433",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}