@inproceedings{xing-etal-2026-compute, title = "Compute Allocation in Evolutionary Search: From Depth{--}Breadth to Multi-Armed Bandits", author = "Xing, Sixue and He, Haoyu and Wu, Kerui and Yang, Zhuo and Luo, Haozheng and Fu, Tianfan and Nagarajan, Aarthy", 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.1056/", pages = "24224--24251", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }