@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-verified,
    title = "Verified Critical Step Optimization for {LLM} Agents",
    author = "Li, Mukai  and
      Zeng, Qingcheng  and
      Fang, Tianqing  and
      Liang, Zhenwen  and
      Song, Linfeng  and
      Liu, Qi  and
      Mi, Haitao  and
      Yu, Dong",
    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.1974/",
    pages = "39627--39639",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}