@inproceedings{lin-etal-2026-harness,
    title = "Harness Updating Is Not Harness Benefit: Disentangling Evolution Capabilities in Self-Evolving {LLM} Agents",
    author = "Lin, Minhua  and
      Wu, Juncheng  and
      Wang, Zijun  and
      Shi, Zhan  and
      Sang, Yisi  and
      He, Bing  and
      Liu, Zewen  and
      Wei, Tianxin  and
      Wu, Zongyu  and
      Zhang, Zhiwei  and
      Wang, Dakuo  and
      Zhang, Xiang  and
      Dumoulin, Benoit  and
      Xie, Cihang  and
      Zhou, Yuyin  and
      Wang, Suhang  and
      Lu, Hanqing",
    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.2326/",
    pages = "52829--52852",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}