@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-latent-reward,
    title = "Latent Reward Steering: An Adaptive Inference-Time Framework that Implicitly Promotes Cognitive Behaviors in Reasoning {LLM}s",
    author = "Li, Jiakang  and
      Zhu, Guanyu  and
      Jin, Can  and
      Huang, Chenxi  and
      Yu, Dexu  and
      Chen, Ronghao  and
      Zhou, Yang  and
      Peng, Hongwu  and
      Lan, Xuanqi  and
      Metaxas, Dimitris N.  and
      Li, Youhua",
    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.655/",
    pages = "13748--13767",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}