@article{knowingisntalwayssayingwhendospatialenco, title = {Knowing Isn't Always Saying: When Do Spatial Encodings Reach Answers in Vision-Language Models?}, author = {Zeyu Wang and Xinming Xu}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2608.22916}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.22916}, }