@inproceedings{gupta-etal-2026-hsearch,
    title = "{HSEARCH}-{R}1: Learning Compact Value Models for {LLM}-guided Hierarchical Search via {RL}",
    author = "Gupta, Nilesh  and
      Ullah, Nasib  and
      Zhang, Jinbin  and
      Babbar, Rohit  and
      Dhillon, Inderjit S",
    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.2494/",
    pages = "56623--56642",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}