@inproceedings{zhu-etal-2026-demystifying, title = "Demystifying Multi-Agent Debate: The Role of Confidence and Diversity", author = "Zhu, Xiaochen and Zhang, Caiqi and Chi, Yizhou and Stafford, Tom and Collier, Nigel and Vlachos, Andreas", 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.1694/", pages = "33909--33930", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }