@inproceedings{fan-etal-2026-patalign, title = "{P}at{A}lign: Bridging the Gap between Scientific Papers and Patent Descriptions via Iterative Preference Optimization", author = "Fan, Zheming and Song, Xuemeng and Yang, Min and Yang, Linyi", 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.212/", pages = "4434--4448", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }