@inproceedings{gao-etal-2026-surprise,
    title = "When Surprise Is Not Enough: Validation-Aware Rewards for {LLM}-Guided Scientific Discovery",
    author = "Gao, Yifan  and
      Li, Haoyue  and
      Yuan, Feng  and
      Gao, Xin",
    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.245/",
    pages = "5596--5611",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}