@inproceedings{zhou-etal-2026-evidence,
    title = "Evidence Laundering: Deep Research Agents Mistake Correlated Sources for Independent Evidence",
    author = "Zhou, Ruihua  and
      Huang, Hao  and
      Zheng, Yijie  and
      Luo, JiaTang  and
      Li, Yunpeng  and
      Liu, Yuling  and
      Du, Dan",
    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.509/",
    pages = "11682--11693",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}