@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} }