# Misogynistic Meme Detection using Early Fusion Model with Graph Network

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.16781 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.16781/

## Key facts

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- First posted on arXiv 31 Mar 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03385/) (2015)
- [Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.10084/) (2019)
- [Learning to Navigate for Fine-grained Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.00287/) (2018)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In recent years , there has been an upsurge in a new form of entertainment medium called memes. These memes although seemingly innocuous have transcended onto the boundary of online harassment against women and created an unwanted bias against them . To help alleviate this problem , we propose an early fusion model for prediction and identification of misogynistic memes and its type in this paper for which we participated in SemEval-2022 Task 5 . The model receives as input meme image with its text transcription with a target vector. Given that a key challenge with this task is the combination of different modalities to predict misogyny, our model relies on pretrained contextual representations from different state-of-the-art transformer-based language models and pretrained image pretrained models to get an effective image representation. Our model achieved competitive results on both SubTask-A and SubTask-B with the other competition teams and significantly outperforms the baselines.