@inproceedings{xue-etal-2026-fake, title = "Fake It Till You Make It: Training Deep-Search Agents in Synthetic Search Environments", author = "Xue, Yibo and Zheng, Pin and Wang, Chengyu and Kang, Yukun and Lyu, Yuanjie and Wang, Ming and Peng, Jian and Huang, Jun and Xu, Changliang", 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.928/", pages = "21347--21372", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }