@article{selfreferenceinlargelanguagemodelstheint,
  title = {Self-Reference in Large Language Models: The Introspection Threshold for Recursive Self-Improvement},
  author = {Jiang Zhang and Bing Yuan and Qian Zhang},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2607.04277},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04277},
}