@inproceedings{xu-etal-2026-ael,
    title = "{AEL}: Evolving Agent Harness in Open-Ended Environments",
    author = "Xu, Wujiang  and
      Han, Jiaojiao  and
      Guo, Minghao  and
      Mei, Kai  and
      Zhu, Xi  and
      Zhang, Han  and
      Metaxas, Dimitris N.",
    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.1316/",
    pages = "27857--27885",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}