@article{geometrywithoutpositionwhenpositionalemb,
  title = {Geometry without Position? When Positional Embeddings Help and Hurt Spatial Reasoning},
  author = {Jian Shi and Michael Birsak and Wenqing Cui and Zhenyu Li and Peter Wonka},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2601.22231},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22231},
}