@inproceedings{chen_answer_2026,
 author = {Chen, Haoyang and Liu, Yi and Shao, Jianzhi and Zhang, Tao and Huo, Chengfu and Hu, Wei},
 booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026},
 date = {2026-05-08},
 note = {ACL 2026 paper number: 4577-FIND},
 title = {How Do Answer Tokens Read Reasoning Traces? Self-Reading Patterns in Thinking LLMs for Quantitative Reasoning},
 url = {https://2026.aclweb.org/program/},
 year = {2026}
}