@inproceedings{kaesberg-etal-2026-visual, title = "Is Visual Prompting All You Need? Studying {VLM} Spatial Reasoning under Progressive Visual Scaffolds", author = "Kaesberg, Lars Benedikt and Yang, Tianyu and Wunderlich, Florian Valentin and Ruas, Terry and Kurzawe, Daniel and Wahle, Jan Philip and Gipp, Bela", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2397/", pages = "51505--51526", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }