@inproceedings{zhu-etal-2026-sage,
    title = "{SAGE}: Stochastic Prompt Optimization via Agent-Guided Exploration",
    author = "Zhu, Ziyi  and
      Smyth, Luka  and
      Shinoda, Saki  and
      Chen, Jinghong",
    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.221/",
    pages = "3695--3711",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-460-6"
}