@inproceedings{zhao-etal-2026-aha, title = "Can Aha Moments be Fake? Towards Quantifying Decorative and True Thinking in Chain-of-Thought", author = "Zhao, Jiachen and Sun, Yiyou and Shi, Weiyan and Song, Dawn", 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.580/", pages = "12242--12258", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }