@article{laddersinchaoswhenhowandperhapswhydoeste,
  title = {Ladders in Chaos: When, How, (and Perhaps Why) Does Test-Time Scaling Improve LLM Machine Translation},
  author = {Di Wu and Sergey Troshin and Christof Monz and Antske Fokkens and Vlad Niculae},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2608.28496},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28496},
}