@inproceedings{zhao-etal-2026-gift,
    title = "{GIFT}: Reconciling Post-Training Objectives via Variational Finite-Temperature {G}ibbs Initialization",
    author = "Zhao, Zhengyang  and
      Ma, Lu  and
      Jiang, Yizhen  and
      Ma, Xiaochen  and
      Meng, Zimo  and
      Shen, Chengyu  and
      Tang, Lexiang  and
      Sun, Haoze  and
      Pei, Peng  and
      Zhang, Wentao",
    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.1285/",
    pages = "27215--27230",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}