@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-last-step, title = "Last Step Matters: Early Uncertainty Cannot Predict Failure in Long-Horizon Agents", author = "Li, Zongyue and Yu, Chengyue and Zang, Lei and Zhuang, Chenyi and Mo, Linjian and Gan, Leilei", 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.475/", pages = "10913--10931", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }