@inproceedings{yang-etal-2026-gbc,
    title = "{GBC}: Gradient-Based Connections for Optimizing Multi-Agent Systems",
    author = {Yang, Xiaocheng  and
      Alrabah, Abdulrahman  and
      Hakkani-T{\"u}r, Dilek  and
      Tur, Gokhan},
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.24/",
    pages = "342--356"
}