Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
6-2022
Abstract
Facebook has recently launched the hateful meme detection challenge, which garnered much attention in academic and industry research communities. Researchers have proposed multimodal deep learning classification methods to perform hateful meme detection. While the proposed methods have yielded promising results, these classification methods are mostly supervised and heavily rely on labeled data that are not always available in the real-world setting. Therefore, this paper explores and aims to perform hateful meme detection in a zero-shot setting. Working towards this goal, we propose Target-Aware Multimodal Enhancement (TAME), which is a novel deep generative framework that can improve existing hateful meme classification models’ performance in detecting unseen types of hateful memes. We conduct extensive experiments on the Facebook hateful meme dataset, and the results show that TAME can significantly improve the state-of-the-art hateful meme classification methods’ performance in seen and unseen settings.
Keywords
Hateful memes, Multimodal, Social media mining
Discipline
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Databases and Information Systems | Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
Research Areas
Data Science and Engineering
Publication
Proceedings of the WebSci '22: 14th ACM Web Science Conference, Barcelona Spain, June 26 - 29
First Page
382
Last Page
389
ISBN
9781450391917
Identifier
10.1145/3501247.3531557
Publisher
ACM
City or Country
New York
Citation
ZHU, Jiawen; LEE, Roy Ka-Wei; and CHONG, Wen Haw.
Multimodal zero-shot hateful meme detection. (2022). Proceedings of the WebSci '22: 14th ACM Web Science Conference, Barcelona Spain, June 26 - 29. 382-389.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8257
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1145/3501247.3531557
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