@inproceedings{xu-etal-2026-steve,
    title = "{STEVE}: Stabilizing Textual Gradient-Based Prompt Optimization via Error-Driven Refinement and Regularized Verification",
    author = "Xu, Yifan  and
      Li, Yixuan  and
      Li, Xinzhuo  and
      Gu, Yixin  and
      Shen, Yifan  and
      Yu, Lijun  and
      Wang, Haohan",
    editor = "Zhang, Yue  and
      Xu, Ruifeng  and
      Purwarianti, Ayu  and
      Rong, Tong  and
      Suzuki, Jun",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {IJCNLP}-{AACL} 2026",
    month = nov,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Hengqin, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-aacl.104/",
    pages = "2057--2073",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-444-6"
}