@inproceedings{li2026otca,
  title = {{Learning to Credit the Right Steps: Objective-aware Process Optimization for Visual Generation}},
  author = {Li, Rui and Hao, Ke and Liang, Yuanzhi and Huang, Haibin and Zhang, Chi and Gu, Yun and Li, XueLong},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {34th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia 2026)},
  publisher = {ACM},
  eprint = {2604.19234},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.CV},
  note = {Forthcoming; final DOI and pagination pending},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19234}
}