@inproceedings{wang-xu-2026-knowing, title = "Knowing Isn{'}t Always Saying: When Do Spatial Encodings Reach Answers in Vision-Language Models?", author = "Wang, Zeyu and Xu, Xinming", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.2319/", pages = "52683--52705", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }