POLARIS: A Political-Aware Large Multimodal Model for Analyzing Technology Deployment Narratives in Conflict Regions

POLARIS: A Political-Aware Large Multimodal Model for Analyzing Technology Deployment Narratives in Conflict Regions | Authorea try { document.documentElement.classList.add('js'); } catch (e) { } var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'G-8VDV14Y67G']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); Skip to main content Preprints Collections Wiley Open Research IET Open Research Ecological Society of Japan All Collections About About Authorea FAQs Contact Us Quick Search anywhere Search for preprint articles, keywords, etc. Search Search ADVANCED SEARCH SCROLL This is a preprint and has not been peer reviewed. Data may be preliminary. 18 March 2026 V1 Latest version Share on POLARIS: A Political-Aware Large Multimodal Model for Analyzing Technology Deployment Narratives in Conflict Regions Authors : Haoran Ji 0009-0007-2015-4815 [email protected] and Ruoxi Zhong Authors Info & Affiliations https://doi.org/10.22541/au.177385886.69807039/v1 58 views 33 downloads Contents Abstract Supplementary Material Information & Authors Metrics & Citations View Options References Figures Tables Media Share Abstract The pervasive deployment of technology in conflict-affected and politically sensitive regions presents complex narratives, often framed as both "stability maintenance" and instruments of "oppression." Existing large language and multimodal models frequently exhibit a "technological neutrality fallacy," failing to capture deep political intentions, implicit biases, and cross-modal consistency. To address this, we introduce Technology Deployment Framing Analysis (TDFA), a novel task encompassing stance classification, deployment intent recognition, cross-modal consistency analysis, and implicit bias detection. We propose POLARIS, a Political-Aware Large Multimodal Model framework built upon prevailing architectures, underpinned by our core philosophy of Political Context Injection. POLARIS integrates a Contextual Knowledge Adapter for geopolitical knowledge infusion, a Framing-Aware Attention mechanism to highlight politically salient features, and a Bias Calibration Head optimized for task-specific outputs. For evaluation, we construct TechConflict-23K, a substantial multimodal dataset with professionally annotated samples. Our multi-stage training strategy includes instruction tuning, a crucial bias alignment phase to penalize "neutral hallucination," and contrastive alignment for cross-modal consistency. Extensive experiments demonstrate that POLARIS achieves state-of-the-art performance across all TDFA sub-tasks, significantly outperforming strong baselines, including advanced multimodal models. These results validate POLARIS's ability to provide more accurate and objective analytical tools for discerning the complex realities and impacts of technology deployment in sensitive geopolitical contexts. Supplementary Material File (polaris.pdf) Download 1.58 MB Information & Authors Information Version history V1 Version 1 18 March 2026 Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License Keywords bias detection framing analysis multimodal models political context technology deployment Authors Affiliations Haoran Ji 0009-0007-2015-4815 [email protected] Xihua University View all articles by this author Ruoxi Zhong Xihua University View all articles by this author Metrics & Citations Metrics Article Usage 58 views 33 downloads .FvxKWukQNSOunydq8rnd { width: 100px; } Citations Download citation Haoran Ji, Ruoxi Zhong. POLARIS: A Political-Aware Large Multimodal Model for Analyzing Technology Deployment Narratives in Conflict Regions. Authorea . 18 March 2026. 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