@inproceedings{bai-etal-2026-candidate,
    title = "Candidate Pool Design for Safer Preference-Based Post-Training of {LLM} Companion Chatbots",
    author = "Bai, Yuzhe  and
      Cheng, Jia  and
      Liu, Yunzhe",
    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.476/",
    pages = "9987--10000",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}