@inproceedings{hadhoud-etal-2026-idea,
    title = "Idea First, Code Later: Disentangling Problem Solving from Code Generation in Evaluating {LLM}s for Competitive Programming",
    author = "Hadhoud, Sama  and
      Elsetohy, Alaa  and
      Hudi, Frederikus  and
      Cruz, Jan Christian Blaise  and
      Halim, Steven  and
      Aji, Alham Fikri",
    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.1778/",
    pages = "35708--35747",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}