Wenbin Shen
2026
wenbin@EEUCA 2026: MoEs-VaxAgent, A Two-Stage Framework for Multimodal Vaccine Critical Meme Detection
Wenbin Shen
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026)
Wenbin Shen
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026)
Memes on social media have emerged as a crucial medium for disseminating vaccine-related viewpoints, yet their inherent irony, metaphor, and text-image misalignment pose significant challenges to automatic detection. In this paper, we propose MoEs-VaxAgent, a two-stage multimodal framework for vaccine critical meme detection. First, we design a dynamic routing Mixture-of-Experts module capable of adaptively capturing multi-granular semantic cues within memes. Second, to address hard samples located at the decision boundaries, we introduce an uncertainty-aware multi-agent rectification mechanism to perform a secondary detection on samples identified with low confidence in the first stage. In the EEUCA 2026 Shared Task on Multimodal Vaccine Critical Meme Detection, our system achieved a Macro F1-score of 0.8205, ranking 9th on the official leaderboard. Furthermore, we discuss various exploratory strategies evaluated during the competition and provide a detailed analysis of the model’s performance.