@inproceedings{cheng-etal-2026-stars,
    title = "{STARS}: State-Aware Reasoning Stopping via Hidden-State Spectral Analysis",
    author = "Cheng, Aaron T.  and
      Wu, Junda  and
      Yu, Sheldon  and
      Wang, Rui  and
      Rossi, Ryan A.  and
      Zhou, Sizhe  and
      Han, Jiawei  and
      McAuley, Julian  and
      Yao, Lina  and
      Yu, Tong",
    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.1790/",
    pages = "38289--38306",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}