Challenge: Recent research has developed models targeting specific modalities but lacks transferability between formats.
Approach: They conduct extensive experiments using few-shot in-context learning with large language models to explore the transferability of hate speech detection between modalities.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms vision-language demonstrations in few-shot learning settings.

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Challenge: a lack of labeled, non-English resources for hate speech detection limits research on hate speech . a recent study shows that zero-shot, cross-lingual learning models cannot be used as they are . lack of consistency limits research, and lack of models for non-english languages limits learning .
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Challenge: Zero-shot cross-lingual transfer learning has been shown to be challenging for tasks involving a lot of linguistic specificities or when a cultural gap is present between languages, such as hate speech detection.
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Challenge: Existing systems struggle with multimodal content where the emergent meaning transcends the aggregation of individual modalities.
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Challenge: Existing datasets for hate speech detection are limited due to the labor cost.
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Challenge: Recent efforts to detect hateful or toxic language using large language models have not used explanation, additional context and victim community information in the detection process.
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Challenge: Recent studies suggest that classifying hateful posts in a binary manner may not address nuanced task of detecting implicit hate speech.
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Text or Image? What is More Important in Cross-Domain Generalization Capabilities of Hate Meme Detection Models? (2024.findings-eacl)

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Challenge: Existing studies show that only the textual component of hateful memes enables the multimodal classifier to generalize across domains while the image component proves highly sensitive to a specific training dataset.
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Uncertainty-Aware Cross-Modal Alignment for Hate Speech Detection (2024.lrec-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods for detecting hate speech ignore misalignment and uncertainty between modalities . social media platforms have become conduits for the rapid dissemination of hate speech .
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Data-Efficient Methods For Improving Hate Speech Detection (2023.findings-eacl)

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Challenge: Existing methods for hate speech detection are data-hungry and require large datasets.
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