@inproceedings{ju-etal-2026-first, title = "First Things First: Teaching {LLM}-Based Agents to Prioritize Must-Haves before Nice-to-Haves", author = "Ju, Tianjie and Xu, Xinyue and Sun, Wanxuan and Diao, Lingxiao and Liu, Gongshen and Zhang, Zhuosheng and Yang, Cheng", 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.242/", pages = "5096--5115", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }