@inproceedings{chen-etal-2026-apex-searcher,
    title = "{APEX}-Searcher: Hierarchical Credit Assignment with Subgoaling for Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation",
    author = "Chen, Kun  and
      Kong, Qingchao  and
      Feifei, Zhao  and
      Mao, Wenji",
    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.1538/",
    pages = "32708--32726",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}