@inproceedings{wang-etal-2026-aligning-llms, title = "Aligning {LLM}s for Crystal Material Design: Test-Time Reinforcement Learning and Model Merging", author = "Wang, Pengyu and Han, Yang and Chen, Xin and Yu, Kai and Zhu, Tong and Chen, Lu and Chen, Bo", 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.2238/", pages = "47898--47919", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }