@inproceedings{pan-etal-2026-paperscout,
    title = "{P}aper{S}cout: An Autonomous Agent for Academic Paper Search with Process-Aware Sequence-Level Policy Optimization",
    author = "Pan, Tingyue  and
      Ouyang, Jie  and
      Cheng, Mingyue  and
      Li, Qingchuan  and
      Liu, Zirui  and
      Wang, Daoyu  and
      Pan, Mingfan  and
      Yu, Shuo  and
      Liu, Qi  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.1743/",
    pages = "37294--37310",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}