@inproceedings{wu-etal-2026-stark, title = "{STARK}: Strategic Advantage Reinforcement with Confidence-Driven Exploration for Long-Horizon Agentic Learning", author = "Wu, Jinyang and Chang, Xinan and Shen, Yuhao and Lu, Zhengxi and Yang, Shuo and Feng, Mingkuan and Yi, Jiangyan and Zhang, Shuai and Lian, Zheng and Wen, Zhengqi and Tao, Jianhua", 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.126/", pages = "2902--2928", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }