@inproceedings{wang-etal-2026-search-time,
    title = "Search-Time Contamination in Deep Research Agents: Measuring Performance Inflation in Public Benchmark Evaluation",
    author = "Wang, Yongjie  and
      Zhang, Xinyue  and
      Kunhong, Yao  and
      Zeng, Zhiwei  and
      Song, Kaisong  and
      Lin, Jun  and
      Shen, Zhiqi",
    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.760/",
    pages = "16012--16027",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}