Daksh Jogchand

FBHM: Functional Benchmarking and Steering of VLMs for Hateful Meme Detection

Hateful meme detection remains a formidable challenge for vision-language models, as existing benchmarks are structurally observational - confounding rhetorical hate mechanisms with target community features and preventing causal evaluation of model vulnerabilities. To address this, we introduce FBHM, a systematically...