@inproceedings{zhu-etal-2026-large-reasoning, title = "When Can Large Reasoning Models Save Thinking? Mechanistic Analysis of Behavioral Divergence in Reasoning", author = "Zhu, Rongzhi and Liu, Yi and Wang, Jiancheng and Liu, Xiangyu and Sun, Zequn and Wang, Yiwei and Deng, Yu and Zhou, Zijian and Hu, Wei", 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.761/", doi = "10.18653/2026.findings-emnlp.761", pages = "16028--16040", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }