@inproceedings{liu-etal-2026-stop-training,
    title = "Stop Training Against Soft Users: Mentalized Adversarial Self Play for Proactive Dialogue",
    author = "Liu, Zanwu  and
      Zhang, Dan  and
      Wang, Xiaodi  and
      Mao, Yongbo  and
      Guo, Xiaoyang  and
      Wu, Yonglin  and
      Jiang, Peiyue  and
      Wei, Yangyang  and
      Lin, Zecheng",
    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.1516/",
    pages = "34574--34590",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}