3 papers
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…
cs.CL2025
MemeIntel: Explainable Detection of Propagandistic and Hateful Memes
Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Abul Hasnat, Md Arid Hasan +2
The proliferation of multimodal content on social media presents significant challenges in understanding and moderating complex, context-dependent issues such as misinformation, ha…