@inproceedings{liu-etal-2026-token,
    title = "When Token Supervision Fails: Segment-Level On-Policy Distillation for Long-Horizon Agents",
    author = "Liu, Jialong  and
      Li, Zuchao  and
      Shi, Yuling  and
      Zhang, Lefei  and
      Qi, Baoyuan  and
      Zhao, Hai",
    editor = "Zhang, Yue  and
      Xu, Ruifeng  and
      Purwarianti, Ayu  and
      Rong, Tong  and
      Suzuki, Jun",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the {A}sia-Pacific Chapter of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = nov,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Hengqin, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.167/",
    pages = "3688--3725",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-439-2"
}