@inproceedings{hu-etal-2026-optimizing-reasoning,
    title = "Optimizing Reasoning {LLM}s for Automated Feature Engineering via Multi-Stage Direct Preference Optimization",
    author = "Hu, Mingzhi  and
      Pan, Menghai  and
      Chen, Yuzhong  and
      Wang, Junpeng  and
      Dou, Yingtong  and
      Rakesh, Vineeth  and
      Le, Hoang Anh Duy  and
      Saini, Uday Singh  and
      Dai, Xin  and
      Fan, Xiran  and
      Liu, Yuqing  and
      Cai, Yiwei",
    editor = "Zhang, Yue  and
      Xu, Ruifeng  and
      Purwarianti, Ayu  and
      Rong, Tong  and
      Suzuki, Jun",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {IJCNLP}-{AACL} 2026",
    month = nov,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Hengqin, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-aacl.233/",
    pages = "4599--4618",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-444-6"
}