@inproceedings{ji-etal-2026-speculate, title = "Speculate While You Reason: Teaching Agents to Predict Their Next Tool Call via Joint Agent{--}Speculator {RL}", author = "Ji, Jiabao and Liu, Yujian and An, Li and Jain, Rohit and Polatkan, Gungor and Zhu, Siyu and Chang, Shiyu", 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.458/", pages = "9627--9642", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }