@inproceedings{wang-etal-2026-illusion-evaluating,
    title = "The Illusion of $\textit{What If}$: Evaluating the Breakdown of Counterfactual Reasoning in {LLM}s",
    author = "Wang, Yucheng  and
      Du, Yuetian  and
      Liu, Zhengyi  and
      Zhang, Rongyu  and
      Zhao, Bing  and
      Yang, Boyu  and
      Kong, Ming  and
      Qu, Lin  and
      Wei, hu  and
      Liu, Jie  and
      Zhu, Qiang",
    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.807/",
    pages = "17106--17129",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}