@inproceedings{shen-etal-2026-relational,
    title = "Relational Priors as Convergence Pressure in {LLM}-Based Multi-Agent Systems",
    author = "Shen, Ming  and
      Shang, Chao  and
      Shahriar, Sadat  and
      Kulshreshtha, Devang  and
      Zhang, Yi  and
      Swamy, Sandesh  and
      Qi, Yanjun",
    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.3/",
    pages = "49--66",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-439-2"
}