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  1. CLASH: Counterfactual Auditing of Lexical and Prosodic Reliance in Spoken Sarcasm Detection

    Sep 15, 2026Qiyang Sun, Xudong Li, Yupei Li +4ProsodyHumor

    Imperial College London · New York University · Technical University of Munich +3

  2. IROH: Insightful Ranking Of Humor using Multi-Stage Hybrid Retrieval with Rationale-Distilled LLM Judges for JOKER 2026 Track Task 1 English

    Sep 14, 2026Ana-Maria Luisa Mocanu, Sebastian Mocanu, Ciprian-Octavian Truica +1Large Language Model JudgesHumor

    National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Splaiul Independenţei 313, Bucureşti 060042, Romania · Academy of Romanian Scientists, Ilfov 3, Bucharest, 050044, Romania

  3. MultiHuSE: A Multimodal Dataset for Humour Styles and Emotions

    Sep 11, 2026Mary Ogbuka Kenneth, Foaad Khosmood, Abbas EdalatHumorEmotion Recognition

    Algorithmic Human Development group, Department of Computing Imperial College London London, United Kingdom · Computer Engineering Department California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, United States

  4. MemeCULT-1K: Benchmarking South Asian Cultural Context and Humor Understanding of Multimodal Models

    Sep 1, 2026Tawsif Tashwar Dipto, Mehedi Ahamed, Radib Bin Kabir +5MemesCultural Awareness

    1Islamic University of Technology · 2South East University · 3Vector Institute +3

  5. When Models Hear What They Expect: Diagnosing Prosodic Heuristics in Multimodal Sarcasm Detection

    Aug 31, 2026Yongjian Chen, Pengfei Wei, Yiqun Sun +2HumorProsody

    Magellan Technology Research Institute (MTRI) · Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

  6. PragMatch: Separating Pragmatic Incongruity from Cross-Modal Mismatch in Large Vision-Language Models

    Aug 10, 2026Zhanna Mukhametsharip, Vera Demberg, Varsha SureshHumorCross-Modal Conflicts

    Saarland University, Germany · Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany

  7. Computational Humor with Multimodal LLMs: Methods, Datasets, Evaluation, and Challenges

    Jul 21, 2026Tuo Liang, Zhe Hu, Disheng Liu +2HumorMultimodal Large Language Models

    Case Western Reserve University · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  8. Modeling turn-taking with distant viewing: investigating silence thresholds in human and AI-generated discourse

    Jul 20, 2026Taylor Arnold, Nicolas Ballier, Artem SaloevTurn-TakingDiscourse

    Data Science and Statistics, University of Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A. · ALTAE, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France

  9. HCIG: A Hierarchical Cross-Modal Incongruity Graph Network for Multimodal Sarcasm and Cyberbullying Detection

    Jul 17, 2026Bhavana Verma, Priyanka Meel, Dinesh Kumar VishwakarmaCross-Modal ConflictsHumor

    Multimodal Data Analytics Research Laboratory Department of Information Technology Delhi Technological University

  10. RAGthoven at SemEval-2026 Task 1: A Multi-Stage Pipeline Walks Into a Benchmark and Barely Clears the Bar

    Jul 14, 2026Marek Šuppa, Viktória Ondrejová, Lucia Ganajová +2HumorAutomatic Prompt Optimization

    Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia · Cisco Systems · NaiveNeuron +1

  11. CHARM: Charge Calibration and Acoustic Rescue for LLM-based Multimodal Sarcasm Detection

    Jul 13, 2026Qiyang Sun, Yi Chang, Yupei Li +3HumorProsody

    GLAM – the Group on Language, Audio, & Music, Imperial College London, UK · College of Telecommunications and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China · College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, China +2

  12. MIRTH: Mutual-Information Reasoning with Temporal Hubs for Vision-Language-Action Agents

    Jun 30, 2026Hao Sun, Yu Song, Shiyu Teng +2Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsRobot-Free Demonstrations

    College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan · College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, China

  13. Humor Style Drives Laughter, Topic Shapes Acceptability: Evaluating Bilingual Personal and Political Robot-Delivered AI Jokes

    Jun 11, 2026Anna-Maria Velentza, Anne-Gwenn BosserHumorLanguage Pairs

    Univ Brest-Bretagne INP, COMMEDIA team, Lab-STICC CNRS UMR 6285, France

  14. What Makes Synthetic Speech Sound Sarcastic? A Prosody-Controlled Perception Study

    Jun 8, 2026Zhu Li, Shekhar Nayak, Matt ColerProsodyFlow-Matching Text-To-Speech

    Speech Technology Lab, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

  15. ProSarc: Prosody-Aware Sarcasm Recognition Framework via Temporal Prosodic Incongruity

    Jun 4, 2026Prathamjyot Singh, Ashima Sood, Sahil Sharma +1ProsodyHumor

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India · School of Computing, Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Ulster University, Londonderry, United Kingdom · School of Computing, Ulster University, Belfast, United Kingdom

  16. Evaluation of Conversational Agents: Understanding Culture, Context and Environment in Emotion Detection

    May 28, 2026Martha Teiko Teye, Yaw Marfo Missah, Emmanuel Ahene +2Emotion RecognitionConversational Artificial Intelligence

    Cluster of Excellence, University of Stuttgart, 70174 Stuttgart, German · Department of Computer Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana · Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, Technical University of Munich, 80333 Münich, Germany

  17. SMILE-Next: Teaching Large Language Models to Detect, Classify, and Reason about Laughter

    May 27, 2026Lee Jung-Mok, Kim Sung-Bin, Joohyun Chang +2HumorMultimodal Large Language Models

    School of EE, KAIST · 2Dept. of EE, POSTECH · School of Computing, KAIST

  18. MTLLFM: Multimodal-Temporal Laughter Localization: UR-FUNNY-Temporal and SMILE-Temporal Benchmarks with an Adaptive Multimodal Fusion Model

    May 25, 2026Eyal Hanania, Nadav Kirsch, Daniel Arkushin +4HumorDense Temporal Annotation

    WSC-Sports

  19. Re-defining Humor Data Objects for AI Humor Research

    May 24, 2026Anna Arnett, Bang Nguyen, Meng JiangHumorExplainable AI Methods

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame

  20. ProCrit: Self-Elicited Multi-Perspective Reasoning with Critic-Guided Revision for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection

    May 20, 2026Yingjia Xu, Jiulong Wu, Bowen Zhang +3HumorMultimodal Sentiment Analysis

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China · Baidu Inc., Beijing, China · Zhipu AI, Beijing, China

  21. Grounded Satirical Generation with RAG

    May 11, 2026Oona Itkonen, Yuxin Su, Linyao Du +1Humor

    University of Helsinki

  22. MultiSoc-4D: A Benchmark for Diagnosing Instruction-Induced Label Collapse in Closed-Set LLM Annotation of Bengali Social Media

    May 7, 2026Souvik Pramanik, S. M. Riaz Rahman Antu, Shak Mohammad Abyad +2Large Language Model AnnotationsBangla

    North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  23. MultiLinguahah : A New Unsupervised Multilingual Acoustic Laughter Segmentation Method

    May 7, 2026Sofia Callejas, Nahuel Gomez, Catherine Pelachaud +2HumorMultilingual Automatic Speech Recognition

    Universit´e Paris-Saclay LISN – Orsay, France · Universidad de Chile DCC – Santiago, Chile · Sorbonne University ISIR – Paris, France

  24. PC-MNet: Dual-Level Congruity Modeling for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection via Polarity-Modulated Attention

    May 4, 2026Maoheng Li, Ling Zhou, Xiaohua Huang +3HumorCross-Modal Conflicts

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao SAR 999078, China · Oulu School, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing 210096, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao SAR 999078, China, and also with the Macau University of Science and Technology Zhuhai MUST Science and Technology Research Institute, Zhuhai 519099, China +2

  25. Enhancing Multimodal In-Context Learning via Inductive-Deductive Reasoning

    May 4, 2026Haoyu Wang, Haonan Wang, Yuyan Chen +5Multimodal ReasoningIn-Context Learning

    Tencent QQ · Fudan University · Cornell University

  26. When Jokes Cross the Line: Analyzing Regular Humor and Dark Humor in YouTube Shorts

    Apr 30, 2026Sydney Johns, Sanjeev Parthasarathy, Shantnu Bhalla +1HumorShort Video Bursts

    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Alexandria, Virginia, USA

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

    Apr 25, 2026Qiyuan JinMemesHumor

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  28. Investigating Counterfactual Unfairness in LLMs towards Identities through Humor

    Apr 20, 2026Shubin Kim, Yejin Son, Junyeong Park +6Large Language Model BiasHumor

    ♡Yonsei University · ♠KAIST · ♣Seoul National University +1

  29. Culture-Aware Humorous Captioning: Multimodal Humor Generation across Cultural Contexts

    Apr 20, 2026Run Xu, Lu Li, Rongzhao Zhang +1HumorImage Difference Captioning

    Nanyang Technological University · Tongji University · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  30. SatIR: Scalable High-Recall Constraint-Satisfaction-Based Information Retrieval for Clinical Trials Matching

    Apr 10, 2026Zikai Zhou, Yufei Jin, Yilin Xu +3Clinical TrialsPrecision Recall

    Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA · Samueli Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA · Department of Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA +1

  31. MixSarc: A Bangla-English Code-Mixed Corpus for Implicit Meaning Identification

    Feb 25, 2026Kazi Samin Yasar Alam, Md Tanbir Chowdhury, Tamim Ahmed +2BanglaHumor

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Islamic University of Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh · Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  32. Who Laughs with Whom? Disentangling Influential Factors in Humor Preferences across User Clusters and LLMs

    Jan 6, 2026Soichiro Murakami, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Hiroya Takamura +1HumorLarge Language Model Bias

    CyberAgent · Nara Institute of Science and Technology · Institute of Science Tokyo

  33. Sarc7: Evaluating Sarcasm Detection and Generation with Seven Types and Emotion-Informed Techniques

    May 31, 2025Raina Gao, Alyssa Jeong, Lang Xiong +4Humor

    Algoverse AI Research

  34. Timing is Everything: Temporal Scaffolding of Semantic Surprise in Humor

    Date pendingYuxi Ma, Yongqian Peng, Junchen Lyu +2HumorSurprisal

  35. When Does a Laugh Begin? Structured Annotator Disagreement in Temporal Laughter Localization

    Date pendingEyal Hanania, Daniel Arkushin, Naveh Ayal +4HumorDense Temporal Annotation

    WSC Sports

  36. Learning to Think Like a Cartoon Captionist: Incongruity-Resolution Supervision for Multimodal Humor Understanding

    Date pendingHatice Merve Vural, Doga Kukul, Ege Erdem Ozlu +4HumorHuman Judgment

    Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey · KUIS AI Center, Istanbul, Turkey · Air Mail and Cartoon Collections +1