@inproceedings{guan-etal-2026-knowing,
    title = "Knowing When to Quit: Diagnosing and Training {LLM}s to Abort Futile Reasoning",
    author = "Guan, Xinyan  and
      Zeng, Jiali  and
      Xin, Chunlei  and
      Lu, Yaojie  and
      Lin, Hongyu  and
      Han, Xianpei  and
      Sun, Le  and
      Meng, Fandong",
    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.830/",
    pages = "16823--16835",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}