@article{smartthinkerprogressivechainofthoughtlen,
  title = {SmartThinker: Progressive Chain-of-Thought Length Calibration for Efficient Large Language Model Reasoning},
  author = {Chenzhi Hu and Qinzhe Hu and Yuhang Xu and Junyi Chen and Ruijie Wang and Shengzhong Liu and Jianxin Li and Fan Wu and Guihai Chen},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2603.08000},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08000},
}