@inproceedings{yang26selfbacktrack, author = {Yang, Xiao-Wen and Zhu, Xuan-Yi and Zhang, Ding-Chu and Wei, Wen-Da and Shao, Jie-Jing and Zhou, Zhi and Guo, Lan-Zhe and Li, Yu-Feng}, title = {Step Back to Leap Forward: Self-Backtracking for Symbolic Reasoning and Planning in Language Models}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, pages = {27657--27665}, year = {2026} }