@inproceedings{hong-etal-2026-staif,
    title = "{STAIF}: A Stage-wise Optimization for Complex Instruction Following",
    author = "Hong, Jian  and
      Cheng, Chen  and
      Liu, Quan  and
      Chen, Yuhao  and
      Chen, Enhong",
    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.1281/",
    pages = "27136--27153",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}