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BanglaMemeX: Advancing Cultural Metaphoric Image Interpretation in Bangla with a Multimodal Explainable Dataset

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 7, 2026 · UTC

Vision Language Models have achieved strong performance on multimodal benchmarks, yet their ability to reason about culturally grounded and metaphor-rich content remains insufficiently studied. Internet memes present a challenging setting where meaning emerges from implicit interactions between image, overlaid text, sarcasm, and shared socio-cultural knowledge rather than literal visual recognition. This challenge is amplified in low-resource languages such as Bangla, where code-mixing, stylized scripts, and culturally specific symbolism introduce substantial distribution shift. In this work,

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