@inproceedings{zhao-etal-2026-veritrace, title = "{V}eri{T}race: Evolving Mental Models for Deep Research Agents", author = "Zhao, Haolang and Long, Yunbo and Beckenbauer, Lukas and Brintrup, Alexandra", 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.1106/", doi = "10.18653/2026.findings-emnlp.1106", pages = "23388--23426", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }