@inproceedings{liu-etal-2026-trace-temporal, title = "{TRACE}: Temporal Retrieval with Anchored and Convergent Evidence for Long-Horizon Video Understanding", author = "Liu, Pengyiang and Niu, Junbo and Hu, Xiaoyang and Shi, Zhongyue and Wang, Zitian and Huang, Linjiang and Liu, Si", 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.2626/", pages = "59693--59708", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }