@inproceedings{sun-etal-2025-self,
    title = "The Self-Improvement Paradox: Can Language Models Bootstrap Reasoning Capabilities without External Scaffolding?",
    author = "Sun, Yutao  and
      Chen, Mingshuai  and
      Zhao, Tiancheng  and
      Xu, Ruochen  and
      Zhang, Zilun  and
      Yin, Jianwei",
    editor = "Che, Wanxiang  and
      Nabende, Joyce  and
      Shutova, Ekaterina  and
      Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/display_plenaries/2025.findings-acl.337/",
    pages = "6501--6512",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-256-5"
}