@inproceedings{he-etal-2026-smartthinker,
    title = "{S}mart{T}hinker: Learning High-Density Reasoning via Step-Level Token Allocation",
    author = "He, Xingyang  and
      Liu, Jie  and
      Ling, Xiao",
    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.640/",
    doi = "10.18653/2026.findings-emnlp.640",
    pages = "13409--13428",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}