@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-budget, title = "Budget-Aware Anytime Reasoning with {LLM}-Synthesized Preference Data", author = "Zhang, Xuanming and Ashrafi, Shwan and Mirsaidova, Aziza and Rezaeian, Amir H. and Ballesteros, Miguel and Chilton, Lydia and Yu, Zhou and Roth, Dan", 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.417/", pages = "8587--8599", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }