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most citedFanar: An Arabic-Centric Multimodal Generative AI Platform

5 citations · 9 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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31 papers

cs.CL2026

ProBel: Propaganda Detection with Techniques, Spans, and Explanations

Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Elisa Sartori +2

Propaganda detection includes several related prediction levels, ranging from sentence-level decisions to technique classification and span identification. However, it remains uncl…

cs.CL2026

Beyond Logical Forms: LLM-Extracted Patterns for Fallacy Classification

Eleni Papadopulos, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino

In today's fast-paced information era, logical fallacies, defined as defective patterns of reasoning, inevitably contribute to the growth of information disorder. However, often fa…

cs.CL2026

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

Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Mucahid Kutlu, Ali Ezzat Shahroor +2

Hateful and propagandistic memes exploit the interplay between images and text to convey harmful intent that neither modality reveals alone. Although thinking-based multimodal larg…

cs.AI2026

CritiSense: Critical Digital Literacy and Resilience Against Misinformation

Firoj Alam, Fatema Ahmad, Ali Ezzat Shahroor +5

Misinformation on social media undermines informed decision-making and public trust. Prebunking offers a proactive complement by helping users recognize manipulation tactics before…

cs.CL2026

Can Thinking Models Think to Detect Hateful Memes?

Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Mucahid Kutlu, Ali Ezzat Shahroor +2

Hateful memes often require compositional multimodal reasoning: the image and text may appear benign in isolation, yet their interaction conveys harmful intent. Although thinking-b…

cs.AI2026

MemeLens: Multilingual Multitask VLMs for Memes

Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Abul Hasnat +4

Memes are a dominant medium for online communication and manipulation because meaning emerges from interactions between embedded text, imagery, and cultural context. Existing meme…