Negotiating the Punchline: Contextual Meme Understanding via Discrete Semantic Energy Minimization.

@inproceedings{wang-2026-negotiating, author = {Bingbing Wang and Zihan Wang and Zhengda Jin and Jing Li and Ruifeng Xu and Min Zhang}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{Negotiating the Punchline: Contextual Meme Understanding via Discrete Semantic Energy Minimization}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {4256--4260}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809880}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809880} }