@inproceedings{ijcai2026p98, title = {The Sword, Shield, and Achilles’ Heel: Characterizing the Linguistic Inductive Bias of Large Language Models for Spatial Reasoning in Navigation Planning}, author = {Zhang, Xudong and Yang, Jian and Wang, Shengkai and Tian, Jiangpeng and Chen, Shaowen and Wei, Xian and Li, Ke and You, Xiong}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-26}}, publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization}, editor = {Diego Calvanese}, pages = {871--879}, year = {2026}, month = {8}, note = {Main Track}, doi = {10.24963/ijcai.2026/98}, url = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/98}, }