2026
TRACE: Textual Relevance Augmentation and Contextual Encoding for Multimodal Hate Detection
AAAI 2026technical
Social media memes are a challenging domain for hate detection because they intertwine visual and textual cues into culturally nuanced messages. To tackle these challenges, we introduce TRACE, a hierarchical multimodal framework that leverages visually grounded context augmentation, along with a nov