@inproceedings{hu-etal-2026-controlled, title = "Controlled Self-Evolution for Algorithmic Code Optimization", author = "Hu, Tu and Chen, Ronghao and Zhang, Shuo and Xu, Rui and Yin, Jianghao and Feng, Mou Xiao and Liu, Jingping and Jiang, Wenqi and Zhang, Shaolei and Fang, Yuqi and Hu, Sen and Xu, Yi and Wang, Huacan", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1036/", pages = "21886--21916", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }