arxivcs.CLcs.AIcs.MM2026-07-21
Computational Humor with Multimodal LLMs: Methods, Datasets, Evaluation, and Challenges
Tuo Liang, Zhe Hu, Disheng Liu, Jing Li, Yu Yin
Multimodal humor in memes, cartoons, and comics remains difficult for AI systems because intended meaning depends on non-literal mechanisms, shared cultural knowledge, and communicative intent rather than literal scene description. This survey focuses on visual humor understandin…