MemeLens: Multilingual Multitask VLMs for Memes

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Learn how MemeLens, a multilingual multitask VLM, enhances meme understanding by integrating text, imagery, and cultural context, and why it matters for online communication analysis

advanced Published 5 May 2026
Action Steps
  1. Build a multilingual dataset of memes with annotated text and imagery
  2. Train a VLM using the dataset to learn cross-domain representations
  3. Evaluate the model's performance on various meme-related tasks, such as hate speech detection and sentiment analysis
  4. Fine-tune the model for specific languages or tasks to improve its performance
  5. Apply the model to real-world online communication analysis to identify and understand memes
Who Needs to Know This

AI researchers and developers working on vision language models, multimodal analysis, and social media understanding can benefit from this research to improve their models' performance on meme-related tasks

Key Insight

💡 MemeLens integrates text, imagery, and cultural context to enhance meme understanding, enabling more accurate analysis of online communication

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Learn how MemeLens, a multilingual multitask VLM, enhances meme understanding by integrating text, imagery, and cultural context, and why it matters for online communication analysis

Full Article

Title: MemeLens: Multilingual Multitask VLMs for Memes

Abstract:
arXiv:2601.12539v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Memes are a dominant medium for online communication and manipulation because meaning emerges from interactions between embedded text, imagery, and cultural context. Existing meme research is distributed across tasks (hate, misogyny, propaganda, sentiment, humour) and languages, which limits cross-domain generalization. To address this gap we propose MemeLens, a unified multilingual and multitask explanation-enhanced Vision Language Model (VLM)
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