@inproceedings{luo-etal-2025-valley,
    title = "Through the Valley: Path to Effective Long {C}o{T} Training for Small Language Models",
    author = "Luo, Renjie  and
      Li, Jiaxi  and
      Huang, Chen  and
      Lu, Wei",
    editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos  and
      Chakraborty, Tanmoy  and
      Rose, Carolyn  and
      Peng, Violet",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = nov,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Suzhou, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.emnlp-main.251/",
    pages = "4972--4992",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6"
}