@inproceedings{srivastava-2026-raising,
    title = "Raising a Small Language Model: From Imitation to Curiosity-Driven Learning in Dialogue Games",
    author = "Srivastava, Varad",
    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-1.13/",
    pages = "148--159",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-467-5"
}