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  1. MemeTrace: A Multimodal LLM-Based Agent for Safety-Aware Meme Provenance Analysis

    Oct 13, 2026Bo Shao, Yihan Ma, Yiting Qu +2Fake News DetectionHarmful Meme Detection

    CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

  2. MemeLogos: Knowledge-Driven Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Harmful Meme Detection

    Oct 11, 2026Hexiang Gu, Saihui Hou, Changlan Liu +4Retrieval-Augmented ReasoningHarmful Meme Detection

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China · the School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China · the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang 310027, China +2

  3. ArGuard Shared Task: Harmful Content Detection in Arabic Memes and LLM Prompts

    Sep 24, 2026Firoj Alam, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi +5LLM Safety BenchmarksArabic NLP

    Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar · Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar · APAVI.AI, France +1

  4. Small Cues, Big Consequences: Learning Pivotal Cues for Multimodal Meme Classification

    Sep 22, 2026Akshit Sharma, Prashant W. PatilMultimodal RobustnessCross-Modal Alignment

    CVPR Lab, MFSDSAI Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

  5. MemeTAG: Keyword-Driven Meme Classification through Tag Embedding Reconstruction

    Sep 17, 2026Akshit Sharma, Prashant W. PatilHarmful Meme DetectionMultimodal Classification

    Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

  6. Learn Before You Judge: Progressive Knowledge-to-Decision Alignment for Explainable Hateful Meme Detection

    Sep 17, 2026Bo Xu, Chenyuan Wang, Xinyu Chen +5Multimodal Large Language ModelsHate Speech Detection

    School of Software, Dalian University of Technology · School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology · School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University

  7. Decodable but Misrouted: Sparse Features Uncover a Readout Gap in Vision-Language Models for Harmful Meme Detection

    Sep 16, 2026Girish A. Koushik, Diptesh Kanojia, Helen TreharneVLM EvaluationVLM Robustness

    Nature-Inspired Computing & Engineering Department of Computer Science University of Surrey Guildford, United Kingdom · Surrey Centre for Cyber Security Department of Computer Science University of Surrey Guildford, United Kingdom

  8. SyRHM: Symbolic-Language-Enhanced Reasoning with Associative Retrieval for Zero-shot Harmful Meme Detection

    Sep 12, 2026Hanling Wang, Chenlong Wei, Yingjuan Li +4Harmful Meme DetectionMultimodal Content Moderation

    University of California, San Diego · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · University of Washington +2

  9. HarmTrace: Anchor-Calibrated Decoupled Optimization for Fine-Grained Target Identification in Harmful Memes

    Aug 17, 2026Yujia Li, Yiqun Zhang, Zihan Cheng +7Harmful Meme DetectionPolicy Optimization

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University Shenyang 110819, China · Apple Inc., Beijing 100006, China

  10. AHA-Memes: A Fine-Grained Multimodal Benchmark for Understanding Hate in Arabic Memes

    Jul 29, 2026Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Abul Hasnat +3Arabic NLPHate Speech Detection

    Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar · 2APAVI.AI, France · 3Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar +1

  11. EVL-MCoT: Enhanced Vision-Language Multi-CoT for Harmful Meme Detection

    Jul 24, 2026Hao Yang, Jin Wang, Xuejie ZhangContent ModerationVLM Reasoning

    School of Information Science and Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming, China

  12. Adapting Reinforcement Learning with Chain-of-Thought Supervision for Explainable Detection of Hateful and Propagandistic Memes

    Jun 13, 2026Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Mucahid Kutlu, Ali Ezzat Shahroor +2Social Media AnalysisCoT Supervision

    Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha, Qatar · Qatar University, Doha, Qatar · APAVI.AI, France +1

  13. FBHM: Functional Benchmarking and Steering of VLMs for Hateful Meme Detection

    May 29, 2026Paramananda Bhaskar, Naquee Rizwan, Daksh Jogchand +2VLM EvaluationVLM Adaptation

    1Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur · 2Microsoft

  14. Distinguishing Right from Wrong in Debates: Attribution Analysis of Chinese Harmful Memes

    May 23, 2026Weiming Wang, Junyu Lu, Han Wang +5Hate Speech DetectionHarmful Meme Detection

    Key Laboratory of Social Computing and Cognitive Intelligence, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

  15. PrismAgent: Illuminating Harm in Memes via a Zero-Shot Interpretable Multi-Agent Framework

    May 1, 2026Zihan Ding, Ziyuan Yang, Yi ZhangInterpretable MLHarmful Meme Detection

    Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  16. MemeScouts@LT-EDI 2026: Asking the Right Questions -- Prompted Weak Supervision for Meme Hate Speech Detection

    Apr 27, 2026Ivo Bueno, Lea Hirlimann, Enkelejda KasneciHate Speech DetectionWeakly Supervised Learning

    Technical University of Munich · Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) · LMU Munich

  17. DARC-CLIP: Dynamic Adaptive Refinement with Cross-Attention for Meme Understanding

    Apr 25, 2026Qiyuan JinVLM AdaptationHate Speech Detection

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  18. Beyond Hate: Differentiating Uncivil and Intolerant Speech in Multimodal Content Moderation

    Mar 24, 2026Nils A. Herrmann, Tobias Eder, Jingyi He +1Multimodal Content ModerationHate Speech Detection

    Technical University of Munich

  19. Is AI Ready for Multimodal Hate Speech Detection? A Comprehensive Dataset and Benchmark Evaluation

    Mar 23, 2026Rui Xing, Qi Chai, Jie Ma +5Hate Speech DetectionHarmful Meme Detection

    MOE KLINNS Lab, Xi’an Jiaotong University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University +1

  20. Can Thinking Models Think to Detect Hateful Memes?

    Mar 1, 2026Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Mucahid Kutlu, Ali Ezzat Shahroor +2Harmful Meme DetectionMultimodal Large Language Models

    Qatar University Doha, Qatar · Qatar Computing Research Institute Doha, Qatar · APAVI.AI France +1

  21. Detecting Hate and Inflammatory Content in Bengali Memes: A New Multimodal Dataset and Co-Attention Framework

    Feb 25, 2026Rakib Ullah, Mominul islam, Md Sanjid Hossain +1Harmful Meme DetectionHate Speech Detection

    Sylhet Engineering College · Computer Science And Engineering, Sylhet Engineering College, Sylhet, Bangladesh · Daffodil International University +1

  22. GatedCLIP: Gated Multimodal Fusion for Hateful Memes Detection

    Feb 24, 2026Yingying Guo, Ke Zhang, Zirong ZengHarmful Meme DetectionHate Speech Detection

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

  23. PEST: Parameter Efficient Steering of Blackbox VLMs via Agentic Few-shot Alignment for Hateful Meme Moderation

    Jan 8, 2026Naquee Rizwan, Subhankar Swain, Paramananda Bhaskar +3VLM AdaptationHate Speech Detection

    Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur · Simbian