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Multimodal controversy detection (MCD) identifies controversial content in videos and their associated user comments, to support risk management for social video platforms.Prior research frames MCD as a static representation learning task,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zihan Ding , Ziyuan Yang , Yi Zhang

Detecting harmful memes is crucial for safeguarding the integrity and harmony of online environments, yet existing detection methods are often resource-intensive, inflexible, and lacking explainability, limiting their applicability in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Fengjun Pan , Xiaobao Wu , Tho Quan , Anh Tuan Luu

Spreadsheets are central to real-world applications such as enterprise reporting, auditing, and scientific data management. Despite their ubiquity, existing large language model based approaches typically treat tables as plain text,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Houxing Ren , Mingjie Zhan , Zimu Lu , Ke Wang , Yunqiao Yang , Haotian Hou , Hongsheng Li

Hateful meme detection presents a significant challenge as a multimodal task due to the complexity of interpreting implicit hate messages and contextual cues within memes. Previous approaches have fine-tuned pre-trained vision-language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Ming Shan Hee , Roy Ka-Wei Lee

Among the various modes of communication in social media, the use of Internet memes has emerged as a powerful means to convey political, psychological, and socio-cultural opinions. Although memes are typically humorous in nature, recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Shraman Pramanick , Dimitar Dimitrov , Rituparna Mukherjee , Shivam Sharma , Md. Shad Akhtar , Preslav Nakov , Tanmoy Chakraborty

While interpretable prototype networks offer compelling case-based reasoning for clinical diagnostics, their raw continuous outputs lack the semantic structure required for medical documentation. Bridging this gap via standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Alvaro Lopez Pellicer , Plamen Angelov , Marwan Bukhari , Yi Li , Eduardo Soares , Jemma Kerns

Zero-shot named entity recognition (NER) aims to develop entity recognition systems from unannotated text corpora. This task presents substantial challenges due to minimal human intervention. Recent work has adapted large language models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zihan Wang , Ziqi Zhao , Yougang Lyu , Zhumin Chen , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

The prevalence of memes on social media has created the need to sentiment analyze their underlying meanings for censoring harmful content. Meme censoring systems by machine learning raise the need for a semi-supervised learning solution to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Pham Thai Hoang Tung , Nguyen Tan Viet , Ngo Tien Anh , Phan Duy Hung

Memes act as cryptic tools for sharing sensitive ideas, often requiring contextual knowledge to interpret. This makes moderating multimodal memes challenging, as existing works either lack high-quality datasets on nuanced hate categories or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Palash Nandi , Shivam Sharma , Tanmoy Chakraborty

The rapid evolution of social media has provided enhanced communication channels for individuals to create online content, enabling them to express their thoughts and opinions. Multimodal memes, often utilized for playful or humorous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Minh-Hao Van , Xintao Wu

The automatic identification of harmful content online is of major concern for social media platforms, policymakers, and society. Researchers have studied textual, visual, and audio content, but typically in isolation. Yet, harmful content…

Benefiting from generalizability of vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP, many zero-/few-shot anomaly detection (AD) approaches have achieved impressive detection performance across various datasets. Nevertheless, they require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yi Zhang , Jiawen Zhu , Lele Fu , Guansong Pang

Humorous memes blend visual and textual cues to convey irony, satire, or social commentary, posing unique challenges for AI systems that must interpret intent rather than surface correlations. Existing multimodal or prompting-based models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Olivia Shanhong Liu , Pai Chet Ng , De Wen Soh , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Social media has evolved into a complex multimodal environment where text, images, and other signals interact to shape nuanced meanings, often concealing harmful intent. Identifying such intent, whether sarcasm, hate speech, or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Rui Lu , Jinhe Bi , Yunpu Ma , Feng Xiao , Yuntao Du , Yijun Tian

Memes have emerged as a popular form of multimodal online communication, where their interpretation heavily depends on the specific context in which they appear. Current approaches predominantly focus on isolated meme analysis, either for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zhengyi Zhao , Shubo Zhang , Yuxi Zhang , Yanxi Zhao , Yifan Zhang , Zezhong Wang , Huimin Wang , Yutian Zhao , Bin Liang , Yefeng Zheng , Binyang Li , Kam-Fai Wong , Xian Wu

Hate speech online targets individuals or groups based on identity attributes and spreads rapidly, posing serious social risks. Memes, which combine images and text, have emerged as a nuanced vehicle for disseminating hate speech, often…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Rui Xing , Qi Chai , Jie Ma , Jing Tao , Pinghui Wang , Shuming Zhang , Xinping Wang , Hao Wang

LLM-based approaches have recently achieved impressive results in zero-shot stance detection. However, they still struggle in complex real-world scenarios, where stance understanding requires dynamic background knowledge, target definitions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yuanshuo Zhang , Aohua Li , Bo Chen , Jingbo Sun , Xiaobing Zhao

The rapid proliferation of misinformation in digital media demands solutions that go beyond isolated Large Language Model(LLM) or AI Agent based detection methods. This paper introduces a novel multi-agent framework that covers the complete…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Aditya Gautam

Implicit artistic influence, although visually plausible, is often undocumented and thus poses a historically constrained attribution problem: resemblance is necessary but not sufficient evidence. Most prior systems reduce influence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Hanyi Liu , Zhonghao Jiu , Minghao Wang , Yuhang Xie , Heran Yang

Recent text-to-image (T2I) models have made remarkable progress in generating visually realistic and semantically coherent images. However, they still suffer from randomness and inconsistency with the given prompts, particularly when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kaishen Wang , Ruibo Chen , Tong Zheng , Heng Huang