@inproceedings{korotyshova-etal-2026-essa, title = "{ESSA}: Evolutionary Strategies for Scalable Alignment", author = "Korotyshova, Daria and Shaposhnikov, Boris and Malakhov, Alexey and Khokhulin, Alexey and Surnachev, Nikita and Ovcharenko, Kirill and Bredis, George and Gorbatovski, Alexey and Sinii, Viacheslav and Gavrilov, Daniil", 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.2204/", pages = "50104--50142", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }