@inproceedings{liu-etal-2026-trace, title = "{TRACE}-{GRPO}: Teacher-Refined Advantage Credit Estimation for Long-Horizon Agentic {RL}", author = "Liu, Yuchen and Yao, Tianchu and Chen, Deshu and Zhang, Yinghao and Li, Xigui and Ling, Zehui and Guo, Xin and Cheng, Yuan and Qu, Chao and Ma, Lintao and Qi, Yuan", 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.1522/", pages = "34746--34765", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }