Enhancing Meme Emotion Understanding with Multi-Level Modality Enhancement and Dual-Stage Modal Fusion

Yi Shi; Wenlong Meng; Zhenyuan Guo; Chengkun Wei; Wenzhi Chen

AAAI 2026technical0 citations

Enhancing Meme Emotion Understanding with Multi-Level Modality Enhancement and Dual-Stage Modal Fusion

Yi Shi, Wenlong Meng, Zhenyuan Guo, Chengkun Wei, Wenzhi Chen

Abstract

With the rapid rise of social media and Internet culture, memes have become a popular medium for expressing emotional tendencies. This has sparked growing interest in Meme Emotion Understanding (MEU), which aims to classify the emotional intent behind memes by leveraging their multimodal contents. While existing efforts have achieved promising results, two major challenges remain: (1) a lack of fine-grained multimodal fusion strategies, and (2) insufficient mining of memes

BibTeX

@inproceedings{aaai2026_enhancingmemeemo,
  title = {Enhancing Meme Emotion Understanding with Multi-Level Modality Enhancement and Dual-Stage Modal Fusion},
  author = {Yi Shi and Wenlong Meng and Zhenyuan Guo and Chengkun Wei and Wenzhi Chen},
  booktitle = {AAAI 2026},
  year = {2026}
}