arXiv:2602. 07026v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite the success of multimodal contrastive learning in aligning visual and linguistic representations, a persistent geometric anomaly, the Modality Gap, remains: embeddings of distinct modalities expressing identical semantics occupy systematically offset regions.
By Xiaomin Yu, Yi Xin, Yuhui Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Chonghan Liu, Hanzhen Zhao, Chen Liu, Xiaoxing Hu, Ziyue Qiao, Hao Tang, Xiaobin Hu, Chengwei Qin, Hui Xiong, Yu Qiao, Shuicheng Yan
arXiv:2607. 03981v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Memes have become influential communication tools on social media, combining viral visuals with concise messaging to convey impactful ideas.
By Fatema Tuj Johora Faria, Mukaffi Bin Moin, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Pronay Debnath, Asif Iftekher Fahim, Faisal Muhammad Shah
arXiv:2607. 23493v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated analysis of multimodal content on social networks has become a critical task for understanding public sentiment and information diffusion in the digital age.
By Musa Tur Farazi, Nufayer Jahan Reza
arXiv:2606. 07706v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong performance across multimodal tasks, yet their safety robustness remains an open challenge.
By Rishabh Makwana, Mamta, Deeksha Varshney, Oana Cocarascu
arXiv:2606. 31876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To improve safety in Large Language Models (LLMs) we can either perform post-training alignment or exploit refusal directions in the activation space.
By Moreno D'Inc\`a, Massimiliano Mancini, Nicu Sebe
arXiv:2606. 24112v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal misinformation detection is increasingly important because viral posts now combine long multilingual narratives, several images, mixed provenance, and subtle text--image framing errors.
By Chenhao Dang, Dantong Zhu, Jun Yang, Conghui He, Weijia Li
arXiv:2511. 01390v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fine-grained cross-modal alignment aims to establish precise local correspondences between vision and language, forming a cornerstone for visual question answering and related multimodal applications.
By Xinyu Mao, Junsi Li, Haoji Zhang, Yu Liang, Ming Sun
arXiv:2506. 08774v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Different machine learning models can represent the same underlying concept in different ways.
By Fan Xu, Luis A. Leiva
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 implicit targets. While hateful meme detection has advanced in high-resource languages, Arabic remains underexplored, with existing meme resources focusing mainly on propaganda or coarse harmful-content labels.
arXiv:2606. 02111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced to process video inputs, concerns have emerged about their potential for malicious misuse.
By Choongwon Kang, Seungjong Sun, Hyunmin Jun, Jang Hyun Kim
arXiv:2606. 03066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid rise of generative AI has made multimodal fake news increasingly realistic and pervasive, posing severe threats to public trust and social stability.
By Jinjie Shen, Yaxiong Wang, Yujiao Wu, Lechao Cheng, Tianrui Hui, Nan Pu, Zhihui Li, Zhun Zhong
arXiv:2607. 02734v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rapid growth in social media has transformed global communication by enabling fast information exchange, but it has also accelerated the spread of misinformation.
By Md. Maruf Bangabashi, Tahmid Hasan, Golam Mahmud, Md. Mostafijur Rahman, Md. Toufiqur Rahman, Jahanur Biswas