@inproceedings{yuan-etal-2026-quantifying, title = "Quantifying the Impact of Structured Output Format on Large Language Models through Causal Inference", author = "Yuan, Han and Zhao, Yue and Zhang, Li and Luo, Wuqiong and Ma, Zheng", 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.91/", pages = "1771--1795", ISBN = "979-8-89176-386-9" }