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

Firoj Alam, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi +5

ArGuard is a shared task on harmful content detection in Arabic memes and LLM prompts. It includes two tracks: Track A focuses on multimodal hate detection in Arabic memes, while T…

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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…

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

Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Abul Hasnat +3

Hateful memes are a growing form of multimodal online harm, where hostile intent is often conveyed through the joint interpretation of images, text, cultural references, and implic…

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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…

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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…