@inproceedings{jiang-etal-2026-reasoning-combinatorial, title = "Reasoning in a Combinatorial and Constrained World: Benchmarking {LLM}s on Natural-Language Combinatorial Optimization", author = "Jiang, Xia and Chen, Jing and Zhang, Cong and Gao, Jie and Hu, Chengpeng and Zhang, Chenhao and Wu, Yaoxin and Zhang, Yingqian", 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.1529/", pages = "30592--30648", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }