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FBHM: Functional Benchmarking and Steering of VLMs for Hateful Meme Detection
Paramananda Bhaskar, Naquee Rizwan, Daksh Jogchand +2
Hateful meme detection remains a formidable challenge for vision-language models, as existing benchmarks are structurally observational - confounding rhetorical hate mechanisms wit…
PEST: Parameter Efficient Steering of Blackbox VLMs via Agentic Few-shot Alignment for Hateful Meme Moderation
Naquee Rizwan, Subhankar Swain, Paramananda Bhaskar +3
In this work, we examine hateful memes from three complementary angles - how to detect them, how to explain their content and how to intervene them before being posted - by applyin…
STEMTOX: From Collaborative Tags to Fine-Grained Toxic Meme Detection via Entropy-Guided Multi-Task Learning
Subhankar Swain, Naquee Rizwan, Vishwa Gangadhar S +2
Memes, as a widely used mode of online communication, often serve as vehicles for spreading harmful content. However, limitations in data accessibility and the high costs of datase…
HatePRISM: Policies, Platforms, and Research Integration. Advancing NLP for Hate Speech Proactive Mitigation
Naquee Rizwan, Seid Muhie Yimam, Daryna Dementieva +11
Despite regulations imposed by nations and social media platforms, e.g. (Government of India, 2021; European Parliament and Council of the European Union, 2022), inter alia, hatefu…
NLP for Social Good: A Survey and Outlook of Challenges, Opportunities, and Responsible Deployment
Antonia Karamolegkou, Angana Borah, Eunjung Cho +30
Natural language processing (NLP) now shapes many aspects of our world, yet its potential for positive social impact is underexplored. This paper surveys work in ``NLP for Social G…
Toxicity Begets Toxicity: Unraveling Conversational Chains in Political Podcasts
Naquee Rizwan, Nayandeep Deb, Sarthak Roy +3
Tackling toxic behavior in digital communication continues to be a pressing concern for both academics and industry professionals. While significant research has explored toxicity…
Multilingual and Explainable Text Detoxification with Parallel Corpora
Daryna Dementieva, Nikolay Babakov, Amit Ronen +11
Even with various regulations in place across countries and social media platforms (Government of India, 2021; European Parliament and Council of the European Union, 2022, digital…
Demarked: A Strategy for Enhanced Abusive Speech Moderation through Counterspeech, Detoxification, and Message Management
Seid Muhie Yimam, Daryna Dementieva, Tim Fischer +8
Despite regulations imposed by nations and social media platforms, such as recent EU regulations targeting digital violence, abusive content persists as a significant challenge. Ex…
Exploring the Limits of Zero Shot Vision Language Models for Hate Meme Detection: The Vulnerabilities and their Interpretations
Naquee Rizwan, Paramananda Bhaskar, Mithun Das +3
There is a rapid increase in the use of multimedia content in current social media platforms. One of the highly popular forms of such multimedia content are memes. While memes have…