Multimodal Event Detection: Current Approaches and Defining the New Playground through LLMs and VLMs

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Autores principales: Dey, Abhishek, Bothera, Aabha, Sarikonda, Samhita, Aryan, Rishav, Podishetty, Sanjay Kumar, Havalgi, Akshay, Singh, Gaurav, Srivastava, Saurabh
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author Dey, Abhishek
Bothera, Aabha
Sarikonda, Samhita
Aryan, Rishav
Podishetty, Sanjay Kumar
Havalgi, Akshay
Singh, Gaurav
Srivastava, Saurabh
author_facet Dey, Abhishek
Bothera, Aabha
Sarikonda, Samhita
Aryan, Rishav
Podishetty, Sanjay Kumar
Havalgi, Akshay
Singh, Gaurav
Srivastava, Saurabh
contents In this paper, we study the challenges of detecting events on social media, where traditional unimodal systems struggle due to the rapid and multimodal nature of data dissemination. We employ a range of models, including unimodal ModernBERT and ConvNeXt-V2, multimodal fusion techniques, and advanced generative models like GPT-4o, and LLaVA. Additionally, we also study the effect of providing multimodal generative models (such as GPT-4o) with a single modality to assess their efficacy. Our results indicate that while multimodal approaches notably outperform unimodal counterparts, generative approaches despite having a large number of parameters, lag behind supervised methods in precision. Furthermore, we also found that they lag behind instruction-tuned models because of their inability to generate event classes correctly. During our error analysis, we discovered that common social media issues such as leet speak, text elongation, etc. are effectively handled by generative approaches but are hard to tackle using supervised approaches.
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spellingShingle Multimodal Event Detection: Current Approaches and Defining the New Playground through LLMs and VLMs
Dey, Abhishek
Bothera, Aabha
Sarikonda, Samhita
Aryan, Rishav
Podishetty, Sanjay Kumar
Havalgi, Akshay
Singh, Gaurav
Srivastava, Saurabh
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In this paper, we study the challenges of detecting events on social media, where traditional unimodal systems struggle due to the rapid and multimodal nature of data dissemination. We employ a range of models, including unimodal ModernBERT and ConvNeXt-V2, multimodal fusion techniques, and advanced generative models like GPT-4o, and LLaVA. Additionally, we also study the effect of providing multimodal generative models (such as GPT-4o) with a single modality to assess their efficacy. Our results indicate that while multimodal approaches notably outperform unimodal counterparts, generative approaches despite having a large number of parameters, lag behind supervised methods in precision. Furthermore, we also found that they lag behind instruction-tuned models because of their inability to generate event classes correctly. During our error analysis, we discovered that common social media issues such as leet speak, text elongation, etc. are effectively handled by generative approaches but are hard to tackle using supervised approaches.
title Multimodal Event Detection: Current Approaches and Defining the New Playground through LLMs and VLMs
topic Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10836