10 papers
OASIS: A Multilingual and Multimodal Dataset for Culturally Grounded Spoken Visual QA
Firoj Alam, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Md. Arid Hasan +8
Large-scale multimodal models achieve strong results on tasks like Visual Question Answering (VQA), but they are often limited when queries require cultural and visual information,…
NativQA Framework: Enabling LLMs and VLMs with Native, Local, and Everyday Knowledge
Firoj Alam, Md Arid Hasan, Sahinur Rahman Laskar +3
The rapid progress of large language models (LLMs) raises concerns about cultural bias, fairness, and performance in diverse languages and underrepresented regions. Addressing thes…
LLM-Based Multi-Task Bangla Hate Speech Detection: Type, Severity, and Target
Md Arid Hasan, Firoj Alam, Md Fahad Hossain +2
Online social media platforms are central to everyday communication and information seeking. While these platforms serve positive purposes, they also provide fertile ground for the…
CultranAI at PalmX 2025: Data Augmentation for Cultural Knowledge Representation
Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, Youssef Ahmed, Md Arid Hasan +1
In this paper, we report our participation to the PalmX cultural evaluation shared task. Our system, CultranAI, focused on data augmentation and LoRA fine-tuning of large language…
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…
PropXplain: Can LLMs Enable Explainable Propaganda Detection?
Maram Hasanain, Md Arid Hasan, Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi +4
There has been significant research on propagandistic content detection across different modalities and languages. However, most studies have primarily focused on detection, with l…