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Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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Beijing Information Science and Technology University
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Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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Robust Adaptation of Large Multimodal Models for Retrieval Augmented Hateful Meme Detection
Founder's Pitch
"KID is an AI tool for detecting harmful memes by grounding external knowledge in multimodal contexts, achieving SOTA performance."
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Why It Matters
Detecting harmful memes is crucial for content moderation on social platforms, where memes are increasingly used to convey implicit toxic messages. KID's approach enhances understanding of these messages, improving automated moderation.
Product Angle
Create a SaaS platform offering an API for automated detection of harmful memes, utilizing the dual-head learning mechanism to deliver real-time analyses for social media and online community managers.
Disruption
KID could replace existing simplistic models that fail to accurately identify context-dependent harmful content in memes by providing a more nuanced understanding through knowledge injection and dual-head learning.
Product Opportunity
Social media companies and online platforms face challenges with harmful content moderation. Integrating with platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, or gaming communities presents a significant market, where platform owners will pay for robust moderation solutions.
Use Case Idea
A commercial tool for social media platforms to automatically detect and flag harmful memes for moderation, integrating seamlessly with existing content management systems.
Science
KID uses a dual-head learning framework involving a label-constrained distillation process to break down meme understanding into visual evidence, background knowledge, and classification labels. It introduces knowledge injection to ground external knowledge explicitly in meme contexts, enhancing both semantic generation and classification.
Method & Eval
KID was extensively tested on five multilingual datasets, showing superior performance compared to previous methods by 2.1%--19.7% in harmful meme detection tasks. Ablation studies confirmed the utility of knowledge injection and dual-head learning.
Caveats
The model could struggle with new cultural contexts not covered in training data, and the need for consistent dataset updates to include emerging memes and symbols. Biases inherent in training data could affect results.
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Yaocong Li
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Le Zhang
Beijing Information Science and Technology University
Leihan Zhang
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
zhangleihan@gmail.com
Qiang Yan
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications