@inproceedings{chen-etal-2026-beyond-polarization,
    title = "Beyond Polarization: The Generative Constraint of Chain-of-Thought in Pointwise Reranking",
    author = "Chen, Xiaoyang  and
      Liu, Jie  and
      Liang, Haijin  and
      Shi, Haibo  and
      Ma, Jin  and
      He, Ben  and
      Sun, Yingfei  and
      Ye, Dezhi",
    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.987/",
    doi = "10.18653/2026.findings-emnlp.987",
    pages = "20854--20865",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}