@inproceedings{wan-etal-2026-inference,
    title = "Inference-Time Scaling of Verification: Self-Evolving Deep Research Agents via Test-Time Rubric-Guided Verification",
    author = "Wan, Yuxuan  and
      Fang, Tianqing  and
      LI, Zaitang  and
      Huo, Yintong  and
      Wang, Wenxuan  and
      Mi, Haitao  and
      Yu, Dong  and
      Lyu, Michael R.",
    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.1243/",
    pages = "24822--24835",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}