@inproceedings{huang-etal-2026-controllable, title = "Controllable Memory Usage: Balancing Anchoring and Innovation in Long-Term Human{--}Agent Interaction", author = "Huang, Zisu and Tian, Muzhao and Wang, Xiaohua and Xu, Jingwen and Guo, Zhengkang and Qian, Qi and Song, Kaitao and Yuan, Jiakang and Lv, Changze and Zheng, Xiaoqing", 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.670/", pages = "14699--14719", ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6" }