@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-thinkpilot, title = "{T}hink{P}ilot: Steering Reasoning Models via Automated Think-prefixes Optimization", author = "Li, Sunzhu and Lin, Zhiyu and Zhao, Jiale and Yang, Shuling and Wei, Chen", editor = "Demberg, Vera and Inui, Kentaro and Marquez, Llu{\'i}s", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EACL} 2026", month = mar, year = "2026", address = "Rabat, Morocco", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-eacl/2026.findings-eacl.185/", pages = "3573--3592", ISBN = "979-8-89176-386-9" }