@inproceedings{xu-etal-2026-dualstake, title = "{D}ual{S}take: Dual-Path Confidence Calibration in Deep Research Agent", author = "Xu, Yinuo and Liang, Yuwei and Cheng, Jianjie and Wang, Meng and Yu, Yongcan and Lu, Shuo and Liang, Jian", 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.389/", pages = "8924--8941", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }