@inproceedings{atreja-etal-2026-pioneer, title = "Pioneer Agent: Continual Improvement of Small Language Models in Production", author = "Atreja, Dhruv and White, Julia and Nayak, Nikhil Shivakumar and Zhang, Kelton and Princis, Henrijs and Hurn-Maloney, George and Lewis, Ash and Zaratiana, Urchade", editor = "Atanasova, Pepa and Haffari, Gholamreza and Wang, Minghan", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-industry.12/", pages = "184--198", ISBN = "979-8-89176-460-6" }