The arXiv:2606.02673 paper shows visual graph mind maps derived from teacher reasoning traces outperform text-flattened equivalents on multi-hop question answering when direct answer hints are withheld. Experiments document a modality gap in which text-based graph guidance loses efficiency and accuracy after supervised fine-tuning and KL distillation, while visual graph guidance retains gains. Related primary results from Wei et al. (arXiv:2201.11903) on chain-of-thought prompting and Yao et al. (arXiv:2305.10601) on tree-of-thoughts establish that explicit structural traces aid reasoning; the current work isolates the visual scaffold component as an orthogonal factor. Citation patterns across these sources indicate consistent performance deltas from structural organization rather than parameter count alone, with the 2026 submission providing controlled ablations that prior textual methods omitted. The findings quantify degradation under abstract text guidance versus sustained visual efficacy, confirming graphs function as internal organizers beyond external knowledge retrieval.