@inproceedings{yang-etal-2026-reasoning,
    title = "Which Reasoning Trajectories Teach Students to Reason Better? A Simple Metric of Informative Alignment",
    author = "Yang, Yuming  and
      Lai, Mingyoung  and
      Zhao, Wanxu  and
      Fan, Xiaoran  and
      Xi, Zhiheng  and
      Wu, Mingqi  and
      Huang, Chiyue  and
      Zhao, Jun  and
      Lv, Haijun  and
      Tong, Jian  and
      Zhou, Yunhua  and
      Zou, Yicheng  and
      Guo, Qipeng  and
      Gui, Tao  and
      Zhang, Qi  and
      Huang, Xuanjing",
    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.1950/",
    pages = "42123--42150",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6"
}