@inproceedings{du-etal-2026-optimizing, title = "Optimizing User Profiles via Contextual Bandits for Retrieval-Augmented {LLM} Personalization", author = "Du, Linfeng and Yuan, Ye and Zhao, Zichen and Lyu, Fuyuan and Penaloza, Emiliano and Chen, Xiuying and Sun, Zipeng and Kang, Jikun and Charlin, Laurent and Liu, Xue and Wu, Haolun", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-long.1467/", pages = "31803--31817", ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6" }