@inproceedings{tang-etal-2026-halt,
    title = "{HALT}: Evaluator-Guided Clause-Level Pruning and Early Halting for Lower-Cost Multi-Agent Systems",
    author = "Tang, Zongwei  and
      Li, Yewen  and
      Liu, Bo  and
      Zhang, Zezong  and
      Yiqing, Cai  and
      Guo, Yiwei  and
      Qiu, Houjie  and
      Ma, Xingkong",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1012/",
    pages = "23283--23307",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}