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Online clothing catalogs lack diversity in body shape and garment size. Brands commonly display their garments on models of one or two sizes, rarely including plus-size models. To our knowledge, our paper presents the first method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Kathleen M. Lewis , John Guttag

We introduce an original mathematical model to analyze the diffusion of posts within a generic online social platform. Each user of such a platform has his own Wall and Newsfeed, as well as his own self-posting and re-posting activity. As a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Anastasios Giovanidis , Bruno Baynat , Antoine Vendeville

Fact-checking is a potentially useful application of Large Language Models (LLMs) to combat the growing dissemination of disinformation. However, the performance of LLMs varies across geographic regions. In this paper, we evaluate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Bruno Coelho , Shujaat Mirza , Yuyuan Cui , Christina Pöpper , Damon McCoy

The effect of user bias in fact-checking has not been explored extensively from a user-experience perspective. We estimate the user bias as a function of the user's perceived reputation of the news sources (e.g., a user with liberal beliefs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Anubrata Das , Kunjan Mehta , Matthew Lease

Given the recent proliferation of false claims online, there has been a lot of manual fact-checking effort. As this is very time-consuming, human fact-checkers can benefit from tools that can support them and make them more efficient. Here,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Shaden Shaar , Nikola Georgiev , Firoj Alam , Giovanni Da San Martino , Aisha Mohamed , Preslav Nakov

Search-augmented LLM agents can produce deep research reports (DRRs), but verifying claim-level factuality remains challenging. Existing fact-checkers are primarily designed for general-domain, factoid-style atomic claims, and there is no…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yukun Huang , Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro , Momchil Hardalov , Bhuwan Dhingra , Markus Dreyer , Venkatesh Saligrama

Since 2016, the amount of academic research with the keyword "misinformation" has more than doubled [2]. This research often focuses on article headlines shown in artificial testing environments, yet misinformation largely spreads through…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Emily Saltz , Claire Leibowicz , Claire Wardle

Recent technological advances have led to unprecedented amounts of generated data that originate from the Web, sensor networks and social media. Analytics in terms of defeasible reasoning - for example for decision making - could provide…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Michael J. Maher , Ilias Tachmazidis , Grigoris Antoniou , Stephen Wade , Long Cheng

The proliferation of misinformation necessitates scalable, automated fact-checking solutions. Yet, current benchmarks often overlook multilingual and topical diversity. This paper introduces a novel, dynamically extensible data set that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Lorraine Saju , Arnim Bleier , Jana Lasser , Claudia Wagner

The volume and velocity of information that gets generated online limits current journalistic practices to fact-check claims at the same rate. Computational approaches for fact checking may be the key to help mitigate the risks of massive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Prashant Shiralkar , Alessandro Flammini , Filippo Menczer , Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia

Automated fact-checking based on machine learning is a promising approach to identify false information distributed on the web. In order to achieve satisfactory performance, machine learning methods require a large corpus with reliable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Andreas Hanselowski , Christian Stab , Claudia Schulz , Zile Li , Iryna Gurevych

Advanced deepfake technologies are blurring the lines between real and fake, presenting both revolutionary opportunities and alarming threats. While it unlocks novel applications in fields like entertainment and education, its malicious use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Qihao Shen , Jiaxing Xuan , Zhenguang Liu , Sifan Wu , Yutong Xie , Zhaoyan Ming , Yingying Jiao , kui Ren

In recent years, `fake news' has become a global issue that raises unprecedented challenges for human society and democracy. This problem has arisen due to the emergence of various concomitant phenomena such as (1) the digitization of human…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Adnan Qayyum , Junaid Qadir , Muhammad Umar Janjua , Falak Sher

Deepfakes, particularly those involving faceswap-based manipulations, have sparked significant societal concern due to their increasing realism and potential for misuse. Despite rapid advancements in generative models, detection methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Simiao Ren , Hengwei Xu , Tsang Ng , Kidus Zewde , Shengkai Jiang , Ramini Desai , Disha Patil , Ning-Yau Cheng , Yining Zhou , Ragavi Muthukrishnan

Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently generate hallucinated content, posing significant challenges for applications where factuality is crucial. While existing hallucination detection methods typically operate at the sentence level or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Albert Sawczyn , Jakub Binkowski , Denis Janiak , Bogdan Gabrys , Tomasz Kajdanowicz

Social media platforms enable the rapid dissemination and consumption of information. However, users instantly consume such content regardless of the reliability of the shared data. Consequently, the latter crowdsourcing model is exposed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Francisco de Arriba-Pérez , Silvia García-Méndez , Fátima Leal , Benedita Malheiro , Juan Carlos Burguillo

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) store structured factual knowledge by linking entities through relationships, crucial for many applications. These applications depend on the KG's factual accuracy, so verifying facts is essential, yet challenging.…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Farzad Shami , Stefano Marchesin , Gianmaria Silvello

Items from a database are often ranked based on a combination of multiple criteria. A user may have the flexibility to accept combinations that weigh these criteria differently, within limits. On the other hand, this choice of weights can…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Abolfazl Asudeh , H. V. Jagadish , Julia Stoyanovich , Gautam Das

We introduce DABstep, a novel benchmark for evaluating AI agents on realistic multi-step data analysis tasks. DABstep comprises over 450 real-world challenges derived from a financial analytics platform, requiring models to combine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Alex Egg , Martin Iglesias Goyanes , Friso Kingma , Andreu Mora , Leandro von Werra , Thomas Wolf

Because high-quality data is like oxygen for AI systems, effectively eliciting information from crowdsourcing workers has become a first-order problem for developing high-performance machine learning algorithms. Two prevalent paradigms,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Shengwei Xu , Yichi Zhang , Paul Resnick , Grant Schoenebeck