@inproceedings{lai-etal-2026-patient,
    title = "Patient-Zero: Scaling Synthetic Patient Agents to Real-World Distributions without Real Patient Data",
    author = "Lai, Yunghwei  and
      Wang, Ziyue  and
      Ma, Weizhi  and
      Liu, Yang",
    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.1149/",
    pages = "26339--26365",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}