@inproceedings{wu-etal-2026-beyond-token,
    title = "Beyond Token Length: Step Pruner for Efficient and Accurate Reasoning in Large Language Models",
    author = "Wu, Canhui  and
      Cao, Qiong  and
      Li, Chang  and
      Wang, Zhenfang  and
      Xue, Chao  and
      Fan, Yuwei  and
      Xi, Wei  and
      He, Xiaodong",
    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.94/",
    pages = "1953--1974",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}