@inproceedings{wang-2026-rethinking, title = "Rethinking Scale: Deployment Trade-offs of Small Language Models under Agent Paradigms", author = "Wang, Xinlin", editor = "Li, Yunyao and Rehm, Georg and Tu, Mei", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics ({ACL} 2026)", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, USA", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-industry.123/", pages = "1795--1807", ISBN = "979-8-89176-394-4" }