@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-automated, title = "How Is Automated Research Evaluated? A Survey of Benchmarks and Evaluation Practices", author = "Zhang, Liulei and Zhou, Dejing and Huang, Chuyue and Chen, Guanhua and Yao, Yutong and Chao, Lidia S. and Vong, Chi Man and Wong, Derek F.", 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.148/", pages = "2913--2951", ISBN = "979-8-89176-444-6" }