Why Thinking Hurts: Diagnosing and Rectifying Linguistic Inertia in Large Language Models for Recommendation

@article{luankang2026,
  title = {Why Thinking Hurts: Diagnosing and Rectifying Linguistic Inertia in Large Language Models for Recommendation},
  author = {Zhang, Luankang and Huang, Yonghao and Lv, Hang and Zhi, Xuyang and Yin, Mingjia and Ye, Yuyang and Guo, Wei and Wang, Hao and Chen, Enhong},
  journal = {Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  year = {2026},
  month = {Jan},
}

Zhang, Luankang et al. (2026). Why Thinking Hurts: Diagnosing and Rectifying Linguistic Inertia in Large Language Models for Recommendation. Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.

Zhang, Luankang, et al.. "Why Thinking Hurts: Diagnosing and Rectifying Linguistic Inertia in Large Language Models for Recommendation." Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2026.

Zhang, Luankang, et al.. "Why Thinking Hurts: Diagnosing and Rectifying Linguistic Inertia in Large Language Models for Recommendation." Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2026).

Zhang, Luankang et al., 2026. Why Thinking Hurts: Diagnosing and Rectifying Linguistic Inertia in Large Language Models for Recommendation. Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.

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