@inproceedings{yang-etal-2026-scaffoldagent,
    title = "{S}caffold{A}gent: Utility-Guided Dynamic Outline Optimization for Open-Ended Deep Research",
    author = "Yang, Zhibang  and
      Jiang, Xinke  and
      Xiao, Yuzhen  and
      Zhang, Ruizhe  and
      Fang, Yue  and
      Wan, Xinfei  and
      Song, Zhengxing  and
      Liu, Yuxuan  and
      Huang, Yuheng  and
      Zhao, Junfeng  and
      Wang, Yasha  and
      Chu, Xu",
    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.887/",
    pages = "20454--20474",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}