@inproceedings{huq-madhyastha-2026-first,
    title = "First Make It Playable, Then Make It Good: Staged Interaction Learning for Small Dialogue-Game Agents",
    author = "Huq, Syed Mahbubul  and
      Madhyastha, Pranava",
    editor = "Suglia, Alessandro  and
      Giulianelli, Mario  and
      Schlangen, David  and
      Bernardi, Raffaella  and
      Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel  and
      Hakimov, Sherzod  and
      McCallum, Sabrina  and
      Mazzaccara, Davide  and
      Le, Dieu-Thu  and
      Lemon, Oliver  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    booktitle = "The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.12/",
    pages = "140--147",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-467-5"
}