@inproceedings{suh-etal-2026-think, title = "Think Hard Only When Needed: A Hybrid Best-of-N and Beam Search for Efficient Test-Time Compute", author = "Suh, Hyewon and Li, Chaojian and Shih, Cheng-Jhih and Wang, Zheng and Xia, Kejing and Fu, Yonggan and Lin, Yingyan Celine", 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.315/", pages = "6004--6017", ISBN = "979-8-89176-386-9" }