@inproceedings{liu-etal-2026-toolgate-token,
    title = "{T}ool{G}ate: Token-Efficient Pre-Call Control for Tool-Augmented Vision-Language Agents",
    author = "Liu, Anjie  and
      Song, Yan  and
      Chen, Zhixun  and
      Gong, Ziqin  and
      Yu, Zhongwei  and
      Wang, Jun",
    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.384/",
    pages = "8789--8803",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}