@inproceedings{mei-etal-2026-learning, title = "Learning to Think in Blocks: A Prior-Guided Reinforcement Learning Framework for Deep Research", author = "Mei, Wangyi and Xu, Ganlin and Zhang, Zhoujia and Liang, Jiaqing and Lu, Weijia and Huang, Jinhui and Yang, Chen and Zhang, Xiaodong and Yang, Zhifei and Ma, Xiaofeng and Yang, Deqing", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1067/", pages = "22566--22584", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }