@article{decomposingvisualclassificationassessing, title = {Decomposing Visual Classification: Assessing Tree-Based Reasoning in VLMs}, author = {Sary Elmansoury and Islam Mesabah and Gerrit Großmann and Peter Neigel and Raj Bhalwankar and Daniel Kondermann and Sebastian J. Vollmer}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2509.09732}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09732}, }