@inproceedings{lin-etal-2026-ravr, title = "{RAVR}: Reference-Answer-guided Variational Reasoning for Large Language Models", author = "Lin, Tianqianjin and Zhao, Xi and Zhang, Xingyao and Long, Rujiao and Xu, Yi and Jiang, Zhuoren and Su, Wenbo and Zheng, Bo", 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.936/", pages = "18757--18775", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }