@inproceedings{shao-etal-2026-back,
    title = "Back on Track: Aligning Rewards and States for Reasoning in Diffusion Large Language Models",
    author = "Shao, Yawen  and
      Xiao, Jie  and
      Zhu, Kai  and
      Liu, Yu  and
      Luo, Hongchen  and
      Fu, Xueyang  and
      Cao, Yang  and
      Zhai, Wei  and
      Zha, Zheng-Jun",
    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.325/",
    pages = "6874--6890",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}