@inproceedings{chen-etal-2026-answer, title = "How Do Answer Tokens Read Reasoning Traces? Self-Reading Patterns in Thinking {LLM}s for Quantitative Reasoning", author = "Chen, Haoyang and Liu, Yi and Shao, Jianzhi and Zhang, Tao and Huo, Chengfu and Hu, Wei", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.findings-acl.1507/", pages = "30150--30166", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }