@article{howdoanswertokensreadreasoningtracesself,
  title = {How Do Answer Tokens Read Reasoning Traces? Self-Reading Patterns in Thinking LLMs for Quantitative Reasoning},
  author = {Haoyang Chen and Yi Liu and Jianzhi Shao and Tao Zhang and Chengfu Huo and Wei Hu},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2604.19149},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19149},
}