@inproceedings{rao-etal-2026-mining, title = "Mining or Synthesis? Rethinking Exploration Efficiency in Iterative Alignment of Mathematical Reasoning", author = "Rao, Jun and Yu, Zixiong and Liu, Xuebo and Chen, Guhan and Li, Jing and Wang, Hejin and Wei, Jiansheng and Meng, Xiaojun and Zhang, Min", 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.1097/", pages = "23206--23229", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }