@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-inertia, title = "From Inertia to Objectivity: Improving Deep Research Agents with Noise Isolation", author = "Zhang, Xiangxin and Zhang, Zhanwei and Fu, Zhihang and Lin, Binbin and Wang, Wenxiao", 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.1860/", pages = "42282--42301", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }