@article{reasoningaboutreasoningbapoboundsonchain,
  title = {Reasoning about Reasoning: BAPO Bounds on Chain-of-Thought Token Complexity in LLMs},
  author = {Kiran Tomlinson and Tobias Schnabel and Adith Swaminathan and Jennifer Neville},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2602.02909},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02909},
}