@inproceedings{zhou-etal-2026-offseeker,
    title = "{O}ff{S}eeker: Online Reinforcement Learning Is Not All You Need for Deep Research Agents",
    author = "Zhou, Yuhang  and
      Zheng, Kai  and
      Chen, Qiguang  and
      Hu, Mengkang  and
      Sun, Qingfeng  and
      Xu, Can  and
      Chen, Jingjing",
    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.173/",
    pages = "3966--3986",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}