@misc{lit_2610_33203,
  title = { {Of Chains and Gains: What Reinforcement Learning changes on Reasoning-based Image Quality Assessment} },
  author = {Yixuan Li and Yuxuan Jiang and Hanwei Zhu and Hancheng Zhu and Fan Zhang and Shiqi Wang and David Bull},
  year = {2026},
  note = {arXiv preprint},
  eprint = {2610.33203},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.33203}
}