@inproceedings{xiao-etal-2026-revisiting, title = "Revisiting Self-Play Preference Optimization: On the Role of Prompt Difficulty", author = "Xiao, Yao and Kim, Jung-jae and Lee, Roy Ka-Wei and Bing, Lidong", 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.144/", pages = "2968--2980", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }