MemeTAG: Keyword-Driven Meme Classification through Tag Embedding Reconstruction

📅 2026-09-17
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为解决有害网络表情包的自动分类难题,提出MemeTAG框架,通过生成描述性关键词和构建语义嵌入重构来实现精准分类。
📝 Abstract
The proliferation of harmful internet memes poses a significant societal threat, yet their automated classification remains a formidable algorithmic challenge due to the nuanced, multimodal nature of their content. To address this, we introduce MemeTAG, a novel dual-objective framework that pioneers a keyword-aware approach to meme classification. Our core innovation is a two-part semantic guidance mechanism: first, we leverage a pretrained Vision-Language Model to generate a set of descriptive keywords, that capture the high-level semantics. Second, we introduce the Aggregated Tag Inference Network (ATIN), an attention-based module that distills these keywords into a single, rich semantic embedding. This embedding serves as a target for a novel auxiliary reconstruction loss, which compels the model to learn deeply aligned visual and textual features. This approach, combined with an efficient three-stage training strategy, establishes a new state-of-the-art on the HarMeme, Hateful Memes Challenge (HMC), and PrideMM datasets, decisively outperforming existing state-of-the-art methods.
Problem

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harmful internet memes
automated classification
multimodal content
Innovation

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Keyword-Driven
Tag Embedding Reconstruction
Aggregated Tag Inference Network (ATIN)
Semantic Guidance Mechanism
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Akshit Sharma
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
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Prashant W. Patil
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati