@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-control,
    title = "Control-Data Flow Separation: Stable Prompt Optimization in Multi-Agent {LLM}s",
    author = "Zhang, Wentao  and
      Murtaza, Syed Shariyar  and
      Bhatti, Junaid Ahmad  and
      Soni, Utkarsh  and
      Nie, Yifan  and
      Wen, Eugene  and
      Deng, Yuntian",
    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.2198/",
    pages = "47076--47098",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}