@inproceedings{lai-etal-2026-rolecde,
    title = "{R}ole{CDE}: Benchmarking and Mitigating Role{--}Alignment Trade-offs in Role-Playing Agents",
    author = "Lai, Huayi  and
      Song, Shichao  and
      Niu, Simin  and
      Wang, Hanyu  and
      Yang, Jiawei  and
      Wang, Zhouxing  and
      Yin, Zhiqiang  and
      Liang, Xun",
    editor = "Liakata, Maria  and
      Moreira, Viviane P.  and
      Zhang, Jiajun  and
      Jurgens, David",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.findings-acl.106/",
    pages = "2226--2248",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}