@inproceedings{he-etal-2026-beneath,
    title = "Beneath the Diff: Diagnosing and Mitigating Algorithmic Mode Collapse in Code-Level Autonomous Research Loops",
    author = "He, Bowei  and
      Zhang, Weixu  and
      Jin, Yili  and
      Liu, Xue",
    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.1029/",
    doi = "10.18653/2026.emnlp-main.1029",
    pages = "23652--23669",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}