@inproceedings{gao-etal-2026-thinking, title = "Thinking Economically: A Hierarchical Framework for Adaptive-Complexity Reasoning in {LLM}s", author = "Gao, Yubo and Wu, Haotian and Chen, Hong and Huang, Junquan and Yan, Yibo and Li, Jungang and Dongfang, Zihao and Tao, Sicheng and Tan, PS and Zhang, Jie and Hu, Xuming", 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.1965/", pages = "39434--39444", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }