MemeCULT-1K: Benchmarking South Asian Cultural Context and Humor Understanding of Multimodal Models

arXiv:2609.01772 · cs.CL, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-09-01

Updated: 2026-09-01

Terminology

• Benchmark — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Grounding — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Commentary — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hallucination — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Annotator Agreement — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Frustration — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multimodal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Visual Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• See It from My Perspective: How Language Affects Cultural Bias in Image Understanding
• Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities
• BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation
• Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision

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