It's Always 10:10: Reference Images Break a Bias That Prompts Only Dent

arXiv:2610.11320 · cs.CV, cs.HC · Submitted 2026-10-08 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.HC

Submitted: 2026-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-08

Comments: 16 pages, 5 figures, 6 tables. Data and code: doi:10.5281/zenodo.23224681

Code: https://github.com/PoisonousBelief/OmniClock

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Diffusion Model — 6× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 6× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 3× in this paper
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multi-agent Collaboration — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multimodal Dataset — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semantic Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Structured Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models
• SCHEMA for Gemini 3 Pro Image: A Structured Methodology for Controlled AI Image Generation on Google's Native Multimodal Model
• MLLM-as-a-Judge: Assessing Multimodal LLM-as-a-Judge with Vision-Language Benchmark
• MultiRef: Controllable Image Generation with Multiple Visual References
• It's Time to Get It Right: Improving Analog Clock Reading and Clock-Hand Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
• GenEval: An Object-Focused Framework for Evaluating Text-to-Image Alignment
• ELLA: Equip Diffusion Models with LLM for Enhanced Semantic Alignment
• TIFA: Accurate and Interpretable Text-to-Image Faithfulness Evaluation with Question Answering
• T2I-CompBench++: An Enhanced and Comprehensive Benchmark for Compositional Text-to-image Generation
• GenEval 2: Addressing Benchmark Drift in Text-to-Image Evaluation
• GenAI-Bench: Evaluating and Improving Compositional Text-to-Visual Generation
• Evaluating Text-to-Visual Generation with Image-to-Text Generation
• Stable Bias: Analyzing Societal Representations in Diffusion Models
• CollabEval: Enhancing LLM-as-a-Judge via Multi-Agent Collaboration
• Lost in Time: Clock and Calendar Understanding Challenges in Multimodal LLMs
• Who Evaluates the Evaluations? Objectively Scoring Text-to-Image Prompt Coherence Metrics with T2IScoreScore (TS2)
• Diffusion Art or Digital Forgery? Investigating Data Replication in Diffusion Models
• Paint by Example: Exemplar-based Image Editing with Diffusion Models
• It's About Time: Analog Clock Reading in the Wild
• IP-Adapter: Text Compatible Image Prompt Adapter for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

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