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cs.CL2026

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

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

The paper presents AHA-Memes, a large-scale Arabic hateful meme dataset with fine-grained, multi‑label annotations, and provides baseline evaluations of text, image, and multimodal…

cs.CL2026

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…

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.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.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…