@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-instruction-reasoning,
    title = "How Instruction and Reasoning Data shape Post-Training: Data Quality through the Lens of Layer-wise Gradients",
    author = "Li, Ming  and
      Li, Yanhong  and
      Li, Ziyue  and
      Zhou, Tianyi",
    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.1536/",
    pages = "33249--33299",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6"
}