---
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
language:
- ro
---

### Dataset Description

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[RoMemes](https://zenodo.org/records/13120216) is a dataset of Romanian language memes, collected from public social media platforms.

This dataset is used as a benchmark and is part of the evaluation protocol for Romanian VLMs proposed in *"Înțelegi românește?" A Recipe for Romanian Vision-Language Models* ([Masala et al., 2026](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31401))


## Citation

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```bibtex
@article{puaics2024romemes,
  title={RoMemes: A multimodal meme corpus for the Romanian language},
  author={P{\u{a}}i{\c{s}}, Vasile and Ni{\c{t}}{\u{a}}, Sara and Jerpelea, Alexandru-Iulius and Pan{\u{a}}, Luca and Curea, Eric},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15497},
  year={2024}
}
```

```bibtext
@misc{masala2026inctelegiromanecstereciperomanian,
      title={"\^{I}n\c{t}elegi Rom\^ane\c{s}te?'' A Recipe for Romanian Vision-Language Models}, 
      author={Mihai Masala and Marius Leordeanu and Mihai Dascalu and Traian Rebedea},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2605.31401},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31401}, 
}
```