@inproceedings{zhou-etal-2026-correctness, title = "From Correctness to Utility: Gain-Based Prefix Evaluation for {LLM} Reasoning", author = "Zhou, Yuhang and Cao, Yixin and Ye, Guangnan", 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.861/", pages = "18212--18231", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }