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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…