arXiv:2607. 15442v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Internet memes intertwine visual cues, textual content, and cultural context, making them particularly challenging to interpret in scenarios where humor, sarcasm, and harmful intent coexist.
By Shanhong Liu, Pai Chet Ng, De Wen Soh, Malika Meghjani, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis
arXiv:2607. 19011v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal humor in memes, cartoons, and comics remains difficult for AI systems because intended meaning depends on non-literal mechanisms, shared cultural knowledge, and communicative intent rather than literal scene description.
By Tuo Liang, Zhe Hu, Disheng Liu, Jing Li, Yu Yin
Social media videos often communicate meanings that go beyond their visible actions, captions, or speech. A mundane clip may become humorous, ironic, or satire only through the interaction of multimodal cues and cultural context, making such content a difficult test case for video-language models.
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:2509. 25773v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI models capable of comprehending humor hold real-world promise -- for example, enhancing engagement in human-machine interactions.
By Zhengpeng Shi, Yanpeng Zhao, Jianqun Zhou, Yuxuan Wang, Qinrong Cui, Wei Bi, Songchun Zhu, Bo Zhao, Zilong Zheng
arXiv:2606. 14780v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clickbait content on video-sharing platforms poses a significant challenge to information reliability, yet progress in automated detection has been constrained by the lack of large-scale, high-quality multimodal datasets.
By Md. Minhazul Islam, Md. Tanbeer Jubaer, Amith Khandakar, Shovon Sarker, Sumaiya Rahman, Md. Masum Mia, Mohamed Arselene Ayari, Hamed Noori
arXiv:2606. 00022v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humor generation remains difficult not only because producing fluent, novel jokes is hard, but because "funny" is audience-dependent and supervision is noisy -- preferences vary with audience, context, and culture, and annotator agreement is often low.
By Alexey Tikhonov, Alexey Ivanov
arXiv:2601. 05232v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Most people now get their news from videos on social media, such as YouTube and Facebook, rather than through curated journalism.
By P. Gilda (Columbia University), P. Dungarwal (Columbia University), A. Thongkham (Columbia University), E. T. Ajayi (St John's University), S. Choudhary (Columbia University), T. M. Terol (Columbia University), C. Lam (Columbia University), J. P. Araujo (Columbia University), M. McFadyen-Mungalln (Columbia University), L. S. Liebovitch (Columbia University), P. T. Coleman (Columbia University), H. West (Columbia University), K. Sieck (Toyota Research Institute), S. Carter (Toyota Research Institute)
arXiv:2507. 10177v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant advancements in natural language processing tasks, their effectiveness in the classification and transformation of abusive text into non-abusive versions remains an area for exploration.
By Rohitash Chandra, Jiyong Choi, Jayesh Sonawane
arXiv:2606. 13256v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humor plays a central role in human social relationships, and recent advances in computational humor create new opportunities for integrating humor into human-robot interaction (HRI).
By Anna-Maria Velentza, Anne-Gwenn Bosser
arXiv:2604. 17301v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Detecting harmful content in multi turn dialogue requires reasoning over the full conversational context rather than isolated utterances.
By Juhyeon Lee, Wonduk Seo, Junseo Koh, Seunghyun Lee, Haihua Chen, Yi Bu
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.