# RoMemes: A multimodal meme corpus for the Romanian language

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.15497 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.15497/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 6 of its 26 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 20 Oct 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 6 of 6)

- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1409.1556/) (2014)
- [Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1607.01759/) (2016)
- [The Hateful Memes Challenge: Detecting Hate Speech in Multimodal Memes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.04790/) (2020)
- [MemeCap: A Dataset for Captioning and Interpreting Memes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.13703/) (2023)
- [Distilling the Knowledge of Romanian BERTs Using Multiple Teachers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.12650/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [MemeLens: Multilingual Multitask VLMs for Memes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.12539/) (2026)
- [Large Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Languages: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.05568/) (2025)
- ["Inctelegi Romanecste?'' A Recipe for Romanian Vision-Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.31401/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Memes are becoming increasingly more popular in online media, especially in social networks. They usually combine graphical representations (images, drawings, animations or video) with text to convey powerful messages. In order to extract, process and understand the messages, AI applications need to employ multimodal algorithms. In this paper, we introduce a curated dataset of real memes in the Romanian language, with multiple annotation levels. Baseline algorithms were employed to demonstrate the usability of the dataset. Results indicate that further research is needed to improve the processing capabilities of AI tools when faced with Internet memes.