@inproceedings{hu-etal-2026-understanding, title = "Understanding Why Language Models Hallucinate: Testing Reasoning Against Priors", author = "Hu, Yangfan and Tong, Xuhan and Bai, Haoyue and Ding, Xi and Bharadwaj, Shashank Muralidhar and Cao, Siyang and Nowak, Robert D and Zhang, Jiawei", 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.2092/", pages = "44555--44581", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }