@inproceedings{wei-etal-2026-llm, title = "When {LLM} Meets Tree Search: A Systematic View of Inference as Search in Large Language Models", author = "Wei, Jiaqi and Zhang, Xiang and Yang, Yuejin and Huang, Wenxuan and Cao, Juntai and Xu, Sheng and Zhuang, Xiang and Gao, Zhangyang and Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad and Lakshmanan, Laks V. S. and You, Chenyu and Ouyang, Wanli and Sun, Siqi", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.643/", pages = "13488--13543", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }