@inproceedings{li-chen-2026-learned, title = "When Learned Context Planning Fails to Beat Strong Retrieval: A Controlled Study of Planning, Routing, and Reranking for Long-Context {QA}", author = "Li, Yingrui and Chen, Han", editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o and Shu, Raphael and Drozd, Aleksandr and Akula, Arjun and Rogers, Anna and Giorgi, Salvatore and Benton, Adrian", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.11/", pages = "90--94", ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4" }