@inproceedings{shi-etal-2026-spader, title = "{SPADER}: Step-wise Peer Advantage with Diversity-Aware Exploration Rewards for Multi-Answer Question Answering", author = "Shi, Qiming and Kang, Zhaolu and Zhou, Yunfan and Weng, Di and Wu, Yingcai", 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.894/", pages = "20604--20621", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }