@inproceedings{pan-etal-2026-evolving,
    title = "Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference",
    author = "Pan, Wenbo  and
      Liu, Shujie  and
      Lin, Chin-Yew  and
      Zeng, Jingying  and
      Tang, Xianfeng  and
      Zhou, Xiangyang  and
      Lu, Yan  and
      Jia, Xiaohua",
    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.2439/",
    pages = "52321--52362",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}