@inproceedings{yuan-etal-2026-diagnosis,
    title = "Diagnosis Before Treatment? Investigating Intermediate-Variable Reasoning in {LLM}s",
    author = "Yuan, Zhishan  and
      Almeida, Tiago  and
      Hao, Shudong  and
      Zhu, Zining  and
      Dawlabani, Nickolas Elias  and
      Pervaiz, Ghazia  and
      Ning, Yue",
    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.344/",
    pages = "7220--7235",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}