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Hateful Memes

Introduced by Douwe Kiela et al. in The Hateful Memes Challenge: Detecting Hate Speech in Multimodal Memes10 May 2020 archive 2025-07-28

The Hateful Memes data set is a multimodal dataset for hateful meme detection (image + text) that contains 10,000+ new multimodal examples created by Facebook AI. Images were licensed from Getty Images so that researchers can use the data set to support their work.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 3 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

First row (archive order)PaperCode
Meme Classification Hateful Memes RA-HMD (Qwen2-VL-7B) ROC-AUC 0.911 Robust Adaptation of Large Multimodal Models for... JingbiaoMei/RGCL 17 Compare
Hateful Meme Classification Hateful Memes RA-HMD (Qwen2-VL-7B) AUROC 91.1 Robust Adaptation of Large Multimodal Models for... JingbiaoMei/RGCL 1 Compare
Image Clustering Hateful Memes TURTLE (CLIP + DINOv2) Accuracy 54.2 Let Go of Your Labels with Unsupervised Transfer mlbio-epfl/turtle 1 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

14 shown of 14 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 177. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
Robust Adaptation of Large Multimodal Models for Retrieval Augmented Hateful Meme Detection 1 4 18 Feb 2025 ran 2 of 4 samples (2 unverified)
Let Go of Your Labels with Unsupervised Transfer 1 1 11 Jun 2024 ran 3 of 4 samples (1 unverified; 4 pointer-only for licence)
Visual Program Distillation: Distilling Tools and Programmatic Reasoning into Vision-Language Models 0 1 5 Dec 2023 not harvested
Improving Hateful Meme Detection through Retrieval-Guided Contrastive Learning 1 1 14 Nov 2023 ran 1 of 1 samples (0 unverified)
Mapping Memes to Words for Multimodal Hateful Meme Classification 1 1 12 Oct 2023 ran 2 of 3 samples (1 unverified)
Pro-Cap: Leveraging a Frozen Vision-Language Model for Hateful Meme Detection 2 1 16 Aug 2023 ran 1 of 4 samples (3 unverified; 4 pointer-only for licence)
Hate-CLIPper: Multimodal Hateful Meme Classification based on Cross-modal Interaction of CLIP Features 1 1 12 Oct 2022 ran 0 of 5 samples (5 unverified)
Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning 5 2 29 Apr 2022 ran 18 of 24 samples (6 unverified; 7 pointer-only for licence)
Vision Models Are More Robust And Fair When Pretrained On Uncurated Images Without Supervision 1 1 16 Feb 2022 not harvested
Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision 82 1 26 Feb 2021 ran 16 of 20 samples (4 unverified; 16 pointer-only for licence)
Detecting Hate Speech in Memes Using Multimodal Deep Learning Approaches: Prize-winning solution to Hateful Memes Challenge 1 1 23 Dec 2020 not harvested
Enhance Multimodal Transformer With External Label And In-Domain Pretrain: Hateful Meme Challenge Winning Solution 1 1 15 Dec 2020 not harvested
Vilio: State-of-the-art Visio-Linguistic Models applied to Hateful Memes 1 1 14 Dec 2020 not harvested
The Hateful Memes Challenge: Detecting Hate Speech in Multimodal Memes 4 2 10 May 2020 ran 0 of 4 samples (4 unverified)

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

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Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • Hateful Memes
  • Hateful Memes Challenge

2 variant names, as the archive lists them.

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