@inproceedings{zeng-etal-2026-pruning,
    title = "Pruning the Unsurprising: Efficient {LLM} Reasoning via First-Token Surprisal",
    author = "Zeng, Wenhao  and
      Hu, Chao  and
      Wang, Yaoning  and
      Shi, Yuling  and
      Wan, Chengcheng  and
      Zhang, Hongyu  and
      Gu, Xiaodong",
    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.452/",
    pages = "9481--9499",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}