HyperHatePrompt: A Hypergraph-based Prompting Fusion Model for Multimodal Hate Detection

Bo Xu, Erchen Yu, Jiahui Zhou, Hongfei Lin, Linlin Zong


Abstract
Multimodal hate detection aims to identify hate content across multiple modalities for promoting a harmonious online environment. Despite promising progress, three critical challenges, the absence of implicit hateful cues, the cross-modal-induced hate, and the diversity of hate target groups, inherent in the multimodal hate detection task, have been overlooked. To address these challenges, we propose a hypergraph-based prompting fusion model. Our model first uses tailored prompts to infer implicit hateful cues. It then introduces hyperedges to capture cross-modal-induced hate and applies a diversity-oriented hyperedge expansion strategy to account for different hate target groups. Finally, hypergraph convolution fuses diverse hateful cues, enhancing the exploration of cross-modal hate and targeting specific groups. Experimental results on two benchmark datasets show that our model achieves state-of-the-art performance in multimodal hate detection.
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2025.coling-main.258
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Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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January
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2025
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Owen Rambow, Leo Wanner, Marianna Apidianaki, Hend Al-Khalifa, Barbara Di Eugenio, Steven Schockaert
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COLING
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Bo Xu, Erchen Yu, Jiahui Zhou, Hongfei Lin, and Linlin Zong. 2025. HyperHatePrompt: A Hypergraph-based Prompting Fusion Model for Multimodal Hate Detection. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3825–3835, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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