@inproceedings{khalifa-etal-2026-gaming, title = "Gaming the Judge: How Unfaithful Chain-of-Thought Can Undermine Agent Evaluation", author = "Khalifa, Muhammad and Logeswaran, Lajanugen and Kim, Jaekyeom and Sohn, Sungryull and Zhang, Yunxiang and Lee, Moontae and Peng, Hao and Wang, Lu and Lee, Honglak", 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.1636/", pages = "34789--34825", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }