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Through the Eyes of the Beholder: Biometric and Demographic Conditioning for Multimodal Sexism Detection

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 14, 2026 · UTC

Detecting sexism on the internet is a fundamentally subjective task; our team, VANGUARD, addresses this challenge in the EXIST 2026 Task 2 by proposing a human-centered multimodal framework that analyses and incorporates the psychological and demographic characteristics of human annotators into the detection pipeline. We fuse five input modalities through a cross-attention architecture with Feature-wise Linear Modulation conditioning. Meme text is extracted and visually described with Gemma 4, then augmented by automatic translation between English and Spanish with NLLB-200. Text and image rep

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