@inproceedings{yang-etal-2026-sparc, title = "{SPARC}-{RAG}: Adaptive Sequential{--}Parallel Scaling with Context Management for Retrieval-Augmented Generation", author = {Yang, Yuxin and Deng, Gangda and Akg{\"u}l, {\"O}mer Faruk and Chitsazan, Nima and Govilkar, Yash and Tigalappanavara, Akasha and Zhang, Shi-Xiong and Sahu, Sambit and Prasanna, Viktor}, 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.1865/", pages = "42480--42508", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }