@inproceedings{liu-etal-2026-beyond-trajectory, title = "Beyond Trajectory Rewards: Step-level Credit Assignment for Agentic Search via Graph Modeling", author = "Liu, Yuchen and Yingjie, Feng and Qin, Lixiong and Chen, Jiasi and Yu, Jianing and Gao, Sheng and Yang, Sheng and Xu, Weiran", 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.1140/", pages = "24150--24165", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }