@inproceedings{lee-etal-2026-rl, title = "{RL} from Teacher-Model Refinement: Gradual Imitation Learning for Machine Translation", author = "Lee, Dongyub Jude and Ye, Zhenyi and He, Pengcheng", 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.591/", pages = "12473--12485", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }