@inproceedings{jain-etal-2025-first, title = "First-Step Advantage: Importance of Starting Right in Multi-Step Math Reasoning", author = "Jain, Kushal and Miller, Moritz and Tandon, Niket and Shridhar, Kumar", editor = "Che, Wanxiang and Nabende, Joyce and Shutova, Ekaterina and Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher", booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025", month = jul, year = "2025", address = "Vienna, Austria", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/display_plenaries/2025.findings-acl.42/", pages = "766--778", ISBN = "979-8-89176-256-5" }