diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 48199812..cd2db021 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 name = "NamedGraphs"
 uuid = "678767b0-92e7-4007-89e4-4527a8725b19"
-version = "0.11.5"
+version = "0.12.0"
 authors = ["Matthew Fishman <mfishman@flatironinstitute.org>, Joseph Tindall <jtindall@flatironinstitute.org> and contributors"]
 
 [workspace]
diff --git a/docs/Project.toml b/docs/Project.toml
index fc7076f7..37f6732b 100644
--- a/docs/Project.toml
+++ b/docs/Project.toml
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ path = ".."
 Documenter = "1.10"
 ITensorFormatter = "0.2.27"
 Literate = "2.20.1"
-NamedGraphs = "0.11"
+NamedGraphs = "0.12"
diff --git a/examples/Project.toml b/examples/Project.toml
index e0527b64..6ebaee8c 100644
--- a/examples/Project.toml
+++ b/examples/Project.toml
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ path = ".."
 
 [compat]
 Graphs = "1.12"
-NamedGraphs = "0.11"
+NamedGraphs = "0.12"
diff --git a/src/lib/NamedGraphGenerators/src/graphgenerators.jl b/src/lib/NamedGraphGenerators/src/graphgenerators.jl
index f9f1a641..a880583f 100644
--- a/src/lib/NamedGraphGenerators/src/graphgenerators.jl
+++ b/src/lib/NamedGraphGenerators/src/graphgenerators.jl
@@ -28,29 +28,29 @@ end
     simple_children = children(tree, simple_parent)
     for n in 1:length(simple_children)
         simple_child = simple_children[n]
-        named_child = (named_parent..., child_name(n))
+        named_child = [named_parent; child_name(n)]
         named_vertices[simple_child] = named_child
         set_named_vertices!(named_vertices, tree, simple_child, named_child; child_name)
     end
     return named_vertices
 end
 
-# TODO: Use vectors as vertex names?
+# Each vertex is named by its path from the root, as a vector of child indices.
 # k = 3:
-# 1 => (1,)
-# 2 => (1, 1)
-# 3 => (1, 2)
-# 4 => (1, 1, 1)
-# 5 => (1, 1, 2)
-# 6 => (1, 2, 1)
-# 7 => (1, 2, 2)
+# 1 => [1]
+# 2 => [1, 1]
+# 3 => [1, 2]
+# 4 => [1, 1, 1]
+# 5 => [1, 1, 2]
+# 6 => [1, 2, 1]
+# 7 => [1, 2, 2]
 function named_bfs_tree_vertices(
         simple_graph::AbstractSimpleGraph, source::Integer = 1; source_name = 1,
         child_name = identity
     )
     tree = bfs_tree(simple_graph, source)
-    named_vertices = Vector{Tuple}(undef, nv(simple_graph))
-    named_source = (source_name,)
+    named_source = [source_name]
+    named_vertices = Vector{typeof(named_source)}(undef, nv(simple_graph))
     named_vertices[source] = named_source
     set_named_vertices!(named_vertices, tree, source, named_source; child_name)
     return named_vertices
diff --git a/test/Project.toml b/test/Project.toml
index 9d7fb95b..dd4e2b5f 100644
--- a/test/Project.toml
+++ b/test/Project.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ ITensorPkgSkeleton = "0.3.42"
 ITensorVisualizationBase = "0.1"
 KaHyPar = "0.3.1"
 Metis = "1.5"
-NamedGraphs = "0.11"
+NamedGraphs = "0.12"
 Pkg = "1.10"
 Random = "1.10"
 SafeTestsets = "0.1"
diff --git a/test/test_abstractgraph.jl b/test/test_abstractgraph.jl
index 60ce4ad0..16333afe 100644
--- a/test/test_abstractgraph.jl
+++ b/test/test_abstractgraph.jl
@@ -38,17 +38,17 @@ using Test: @test, @testset
 
     ng2 = named_binary_tree(3)
     net2 = edgetype(ng2)
-    @test vertex_path(ng2, (1, 1), (1, 2, 1)) == [(1, 1), (1,), (1, 2), (1, 2, 1)]
-    @test edge_path(ng2, (1, 1), (1, 2, 1)) ==
-        [net2((1, 1), (1,)), net2((1,), (1, 2)), net2((1, 2), (1, 2, 1))]
-    @test vertex_path(ng2, (1, 1, 2), (1, 1, 1)) == [(1, 1, 2), (1, 1), (1, 1, 1)]
-    @test edge_path(ng2, (1, 1, 2), (1, 1, 1)) ==
-        [net2((1, 1, 2), (1, 1)), net2((1, 1), (1, 1, 1))]
+    @test vertex_path(ng2, [1, 1], [1, 2, 1]) == [[1, 1], [1], [1, 2], [1, 2, 1]]
+    @test edge_path(ng2, [1, 1], [1, 2, 1]) ==
+        [net2([1, 1], [1]), net2([1], [1, 2]), net2([1, 2], [1, 2, 1])]
+    @test vertex_path(ng2, [1, 1, 2], [1, 1, 1]) == [[1, 1, 2], [1, 1], [1, 1, 1]]
+    @test edge_path(ng2, [1, 1, 2], [1, 1, 1]) ==
+        [net2([1, 1, 2], [1, 1]), net2([1, 1], [1, 1, 1])]
     # Test DFS traversals
-    @test post_order_dfs_vertices(ng2, (1,)) ==
-        [(1, 1, 1), (1, 1, 2), (1, 1), (1, 2, 1), (1, 2, 2), (1, 2), (1,)]
-    @test pre_order_dfs_vertices(ng2, (1,)) ==
-        [(1,), (1, 1), (1, 1, 1), (1, 1, 2), (1, 2), (1, 2, 1), (1, 2, 2)]
+    @test post_order_dfs_vertices(ng2, [1]) ==
+        [[1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 2], [1, 1], [1, 2, 1], [1, 2, 2], [1, 2], [1]]
+    @test pre_order_dfs_vertices(ng2, [1]) ==
+        [[1], [1, 1], [1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 2], [1, 2], [1, 2, 1], [1, 2, 2]]
 
     # directed trees
     dg1 = dfs_tree(g1, 5)
diff --git a/test/test_namedgraphgenerators.jl b/test/test_namedgraphgenerators.jl
index d93c2b9e..1c758b0a 100644
--- a/test/test_namedgraphgenerators.jl
+++ b/test/test_namedgraphgenerators.jl
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ using Graphs: a_star, add_edge!, add_vertex!, degree, edges, edgetype, has_edge,
     is_directed, ne, neighbors, nv, rem_edge!, rem_vertex!, vertices
 using NamedGraphs.GraphsExtensions: is_cycle_graph, vertextype
 using NamedGraphs.NamedGraphGenerators: NamedGridGraph, grid_ndims, grid_size,
-    is_directed_grid, ishypertorus, named_cycle_graph, named_grid,
+    is_directed_grid, ishypertorus, named_binary_tree, named_cycle_graph, named_grid,
     named_hexagonal_lattice_graph, named_triangular_lattice_graph
 using NamedGraphs: NamedEdge
 using Test: @test, @test_throws, @testset
@@ -57,6 +57,19 @@ end
     @test is_cycle_graph(g)
 end
 
+@testset "named_binary_tree" begin
+    g = named_binary_tree(3)
+    @test nv(g) == 7
+    @test ne(g) == 6
+    # The path-from-root labels share a concrete element type, so `vertextype`
+    # is concrete (the point of naming vertices this way).
+    @test vertextype(g) == Vector{Int}
+    @test issetequal(
+        vertices(g),
+        [[1], [1, 1], [1, 2], [1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 2], [1, 2, 1], [1, 2, 2]]
+    )
+end
+
 @testset "NamedGridGraph" begin
     g = NamedGridGraph((4, 4))