@inproceedings{zheng-etal-2026-reasoning, title = "Reasoning Up the Instruction Ladder for Controllable Language Models", author = "Zheng, Zishuo and Balachandran, Vidhisha and Park, Chan Young and Brahman, Faeze and Kumar, Sachin", 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.1960/", pages = "39332--39354", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }