@inproceedings{xu-etal-2026-trace-traceable, title = "{TRACE}: A Traceable Agentic Co-Optimizer for Experimental Optimization", author = "Xu, Haoran and Zhou, Keyuan and Ding, Keyan and Fu, Jiangzhen and Qian, Hui and Zhang, Qiang and Chen, Huajun", 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.295/", pages = "6264--6281", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }