@inproceedings{xie-etal-2026-ears,
    title = "{EARS}: Explanatory Abstention for Reliable Sub-Agent Modeling in Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems",
    author = "Xie, Shuang  and
      Lu, Yunan  and
      Li, Han  and
      Wang, Lingyun",
    editor = "Kamalloo, Ehsan  and
      Gontier, Nicolas  and
      Rozanov, Nikolai  and
      Hashemzadeh, Maryam  and
      Arora, Akhil",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop for {RE}search on Agent Language Models ({REALM} 2026)",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.realm-1.57/",
    pages = "832--845",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-485-9"
}