@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-skill-cdpo,
    title = "Skill-{CDPO}: Evolving Agent Tool-Use via Critical Step Preference Optimization",
    author = "Li, Yuchen  and
      Lin, Jinghao  and
      Wang, Yuanqing",
    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.1985/",
    pages = "42309--42326",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}