Culture-Aware Humorous Captioning: Multimodal Humor Generation across Cultural Contexts
Recent multimodal large language models have shown promising ability in generating humorous captions for images, yet they still lack stable control over explicit cultural context, making it difficult to jointly maintain image relevance, contextual appropriateness, and humor quality under a specified cultural background. To address this limitation, we introduce a new multimodal generation task, culture-aware humorous captioning, which requires a model to generate a humorous caption conditioned on both an input image and a target cultural context. Captions generated under different cultural contexts are not expected to share the same surface form, but should remain grounded in similar visua...
| Authors | Run Xu, Lu Li, Rongzhao Zhang et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 20 April 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 20 April 2026 |
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