@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-masking,
    title = "Masking Stale Observations Helps Search Agents {---} Until It Doesn{'}t: A Regime Map and Its Mechanism",
    author = "Zhang, Haoxiang  and
      Xu, Qixin  and
      Li, Zhuofeng  and
      Zhang, Lei  and
      Jiang, Pengcheng  and
      Zhang, Yu  and
      McAuley, Julian",
    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.756/",
    pages = "17469--17505",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}