@inproceedings{acl2026b,
  author    = {Yuanjie Lyu and
               Chengyu Wang and
               Lei Shen and
               Jun Huang and
               Tong Xu},
  title     = {Mock Worlds, Real Skills: Building Small Agentic Language Models with Synthetic Tasks, Simulated Environments, and Rubric-Based Rewards},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {12529–12545},
  year      = {2026}
}