@inproceedings{wu-etal-2026-ladders, title = "Ladders in Chaos: When, How, (and Perhaps Why) Does Test-Time Scaling Improve {LLM} Machine Translation", author = "Wu, Di and Troshin, Sergey and Monz, Christof and Fokkens, Antske and Niculae, Vlad", 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.2415/", pages = "51863--51893", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }