Cracking the Code of Juxtaposition: Can AI Models Understand the Humorous Contradictions

Recent advancements in large multimodal language models have demonstrated remarkable proficiency across a wide range of tasks. Y et, these models still struggle with understanding the nuances of human humor through juxtaposition, particularly when it involves nonlinear narratives that underpin many jokes and humor cues. This paper investigates this challenge by focusing on comics with contradictory narratives, where each comic consists of two panels that create a humorous contradiction.