@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-less-empirical, title = "When Less Is More: An Empirical Study of Prompt-Pattern Composition", author = "Li, Xiang and Shi, Tongqing and Li, Zhirui and Han, Jiale and Wang, Benyou", 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.767/", pages = "16169--16188", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }