@inproceedings{xiao-etal-2026-towards, title = "Towards Bridging the Reward-Generation Gap in Direct Alignment Algorithms", author = "Xiao, Zeguan and Chen, Yun and Yang, Jian and Chen, Guanhua and Tang, Ke", 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.713/", pages = "14534--14548", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }