@inproceedings{kolekar-etal-2026-pinch, title = "A Pinch of {SFT}, A Dash of {RL}: When Reinforcement Learning Helps Long-Horizon Advertising Agents", author = "Kolekar, Aakash and Genc, Sahika and Sisman, Bunyamin and Shariat, Shahriar and Kachroo, Shree Vandana and Saha, Avishek and Wu, Qianli and Singer, Ari and Dumoulin, Benoit", 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.163/", pages = "2762--2778", ISBN = "979-8-89176-460-6" }