@inproceedings{cao-etal-2026-scores,
    title = "From Scores to Preferences: Redefining Evaluation Paradigm for Speech Quality Reward Modeling",
    author = "Cao, Yifei  and
      Jiang, Changhao  and
      Zhuang, Jiabao  and
      Sun, Jiajun  and
      Zhang, Ming  and
      Xi, Zhiheng  and
      Li, Hui  and
      Dou, Shihan  and
      Wang, Yuran  and
      Zhang, Yunke  and
      Ji, Tao  and
      Gui, Tao  and
      Zhang, Qi  and
      Huang, Xuanjing",
    editor = "Liakata, Maria  and
      Moreira, Viviane P.  and
      Zhang, Jiajun  and
      Jurgens, David",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.findings-acl.1638/",
    pages = "32731--32749",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}