@inproceedings{wu-etal-2026-itersynth, title = "{I}ter{S}ynth: Rethinking Deep Search Agents via Role-Decoupled Iterative Synthesis", author = "Wu, Xingyu and Yan, Yuchen and Lu, Zhengxi and Chen, Siqi and Zhang, Xin and Liu, Aiting and Deng, Chao and Liu, Jie and Ma, Jin and Shao, Jian and Xiao, Jun and Shen, Yongliang", 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.2174/", pages = "49432--49458", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }