GatedCLIP: Gated Multimodal Fusion for Hateful Memes Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20818v1
• Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:54:54 GMT
• Title: GatedCLIP: Gated Multimodal Fusion for Hateful Memes Detection
• Authors: Yingying Guo, Ke Zhang, Zirong Zeng,
• Abstract summary: GatedCLIP is a Vision-Language model that enhances CLIP's multimodal capabilities with specialized architectural improvements for hateful memes detection.<n>Our approach introduces learned projection heads that map CLIP embeddings to a task-optimized semantic space.<n>Experiments on the Hateful Memes dataset demonstrate that GatedCLIP substantially achieves an AUROC of 0.66, substantially outperforming the CLIP baseline.
• Score: 3.9076335840651506
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Detecting hateful content in multimodal memes presents unique challenges, as harmful messages often emerge from the complex interplay between benign images and text. We propose GatedCLIP, a Vision-Language model that enhances CLIP's multimodal capabilities with specialized architectural improvements for hateful memes detection. Our approach introduces learned projection heads that map CLIP embeddings to a task-optimized semantic space, a dynamic gated fusion mechanism that adaptively weights visual and textual features, and a contrastive learning objective that maintains cross-modal semantic alignment. Experiments on the Hateful Memes dataset demonstrate that GatedCLIP achieves an AUROC of 0.66, substantially outperforming the CLIP baseline (AUROC 0.49) while maintaining computational efficiency with only 350K trainable parameters.

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