@inproceedings{wang-etal-2026-illusion-visual,
    title = "The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images",
    author = "Wang, Zhiheng  and
      Peng, Bo  and
      Wei, Lai  and
      Lu, Chaochao",
    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.728/",
    doi = "10.18653/2026.findings-emnlp.728",
    pages = "15298--15318",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}