@inproceedings{soudani-etal-2026-deep, title = "When Deep Research Agents Stagnate: Enhancing Reasoning with Retrieval-Aware Agent Control", author = "Soudani, Heydar and Lingg, Elizabeth and Hasibi, Faegheh and Rekabsaz, Navid", 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.1937/", pages = "44072--44095", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }