@inproceedings{liu-etal-2026-revealing,
    title = "Revealing Procedural Reasoning Structures in Chain-of-Thought Training via Span-Level Gradient Organization",
    author = "Liu, Jia  and
      Luo, Jiaxin  and
      Xu, Weiwen  and
      Garibaldi, Jonathan M.  and
      Wu, Xiao-Kun  and
      Hao, Yixue  and
      Chen, Min",
    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.1754/",
    pages = "37799--37845",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6"
}