Training LLMs for Divide-and-Conquer Reasoning

Xiao Liang, Zhong-Zhi Li, Zhenghao Lin, Eric Hanchen Jiang, Hengyuan Zhang, Yelong Shen, Kai-Wei Chang, Ying Nian Wu, Yeyun Gong, and Weizhu Chen, in ACL, 2026.

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@inproceedings{jiang2026divide,
  title = {Training LLMs for Divide-and-Conquer Reasoning},
  author = {Liang, Xiao and Li, Zhong-Zhi and Lin, Zhenghao and Jiang, Eric Hanchen and Zhang, Hengyuan and Shen, Yelong and Chang, Kai-Wei and Wu, Ying Nian and Gong, Yeyun and Chen, Weizhu},
  booktitle = {ACL},
  year = {2026}
}

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