@inproceedings{du-etal-2026-escaping, title = "Escaping the Echo Trap: On Credit Assignment Failure in Multi-turn {LLM} Self-Reflection", author = "Du, Linxuan and Xue, Guangquan and Liang, Xiaobo and Huang, Qipeng and Ding, Yuyang and Shi, Xinyu and Yijun, Zhang and Qi, Ji and Zhu, Wenpeng and Li, Juntao and Zhang, Min", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-long.1636/", pages = "35393--35405", ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6" }