@inproceedings{wei-etal-2026-evolution,
    title = "The Evolution of Thought: Tracking {LLM} Overthinking via Reasoning Dynamics Analysis",
    author = "Wei, Zihao  and
      Pang, Liang  and
      Liu, Jiahao  and
      Shi, Wenjie  and
      Deng, Jingcheng  and
      Xu, Shicheng  and
      Duan, Zenghao  and
      Wang, Jingang  and
      Sun, Fei  and
      Shen, Huawei  and
      Cheng, Xueqi",
    editor = "Liakata, Maria  and
      Moreira, Viviane P.  and
      Zhang, Jiajun  and
      Jurgens, David",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-long.1239/",
    pages = "26905--26920",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6"
}