@inproceedings{cai-etal-2026-ask,
    title = "Ask Only When Needed: Proactive Retrieval from Memory and Skills for Experience-Driven Lifelong Agents",
    author = "Cai, Yuxuan  and
      Li, Wei  and
      Zhou, Jie  and
      Chen, Qin  and
      Li, Xin  and
      Zhang, Bo  and
      He, Liang",
    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.775/",
    pages = "16384--16400",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}