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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

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This paper cites It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models.

It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

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This paper cites Visual Question Answering Visual question answering (VQA) has become a central component in both evaluating and improving the capabili- ties of modern vision-language models.

It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Visual Question Answering Visual question answering (VQA) has become a central component in both evaluating and improving the capabili- ties of modern vision-language models

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This paper cites Base Models Our method is applied to multiple state-of-the-art open- source VLMs to demonstrate its generality and scalabil- ity.

It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Base Models Our method is applied to multiple state-of-the-art open- source VLMs to demonstrate its generality and scalabil- ity

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This paper cites This strategy yields approximately 7k preference pairs, enabling the model to focus on clock-specific ambigui- ties—particularly hour–minute hand confusion.

It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models This strategy yields approximately 7k preference pairs, enabling the model to focus on clock-specific ambigui- ties—particularly hour–minute hand confusion

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models The larger per-device batch size (8 vs

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models D.2.3) when swap-based negatives are used

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This paper cites It omits training-specific instructions (multi-clock selection, NO CLOCK fallback) while preserving core task re- quirements.

It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models It omits training-specific instructions (multi-clock selection, NO CLOCK fallback) while preserving core task re- quirements

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This paper cites A Survey of State of the Art Large Vision Language Models: Alignment, Benchmark, Evaluations and Challenges.

It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models A Survey of State of the Art Large Vision Language Models: Alignment, Benchmark, Evaluations and Challenges

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Reasoning Paths with Reference Objects Elicit Quantitative Spatial Reasoning in Large Vision-Language Models

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Ctrl-Adapter: An Efficient and Versatile Framework for Adapting Diverse Controls to Any Diffusion Model

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Microsoft coco: Common objects in context

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models MIRAGE: A Multi-modal Benchmark for Spatial Perception, Reasoning, and Intelligence

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Ok-vqa: A visual question answering benchmark requiring external knowledge

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Chartqa: A benchmark for question answer- ing about charts with visual and logical reasoning

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Docvqa: A dataset for vqa on document images

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Im2text: Describing images using 1 million captioned pho- tographs.Advances in neural information processing sys- tems, 24, 2011

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesis

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Spatial preference rewarding for mllms spa- tial understanding

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Direct preference optimization: Your language model is secretly a reward model.Advances in neural information processing systems, 36:53728–53741, 2023

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Under pressure: learning-based analog gauge reading in the wild

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models High-resolution image synthesis with latent diffusion models

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Clockbench: Visual time benchmark where hu- mans beat the clock, llms don’t, 2025

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Lost in Time: Clock and Calendar Understanding Challenges in Multimodal LLMs

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Towards vqa models that can read

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Mind the Gap: Benchmarking Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Gemma 3 Technical Report

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Vapr–vision-language preference alignment for reasoning

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models It’s about time: Analog clock reading in the wild

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Mmmu: A massive multi-discipline multimodal understanding and reasoning benchmark for ex- pert agi

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Adding conditional control to text-to-image diffusion models

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Roborefer: Towards spatial referring with reasoning in vision-language models for robotics.arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.04308, 2025

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It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models InternVL3: Exploring Advanced Training and Test-Time Recipes for Open-Source Multimodal Models

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