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As growing usage of social media websites in the recent decades, the amount of news articles spreading online rapidly, resulting in an unprecedented scale of potentially fraudulent information. Although a plenty of studies have applied the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Hao Chen , Peng Zheng , Xin Wang , Shu Hu , Bin Zhu , Jinrong Hu , Xi Wu , Siwei Lyu

Existing rumor detection methods often neglect the content within images as well as the inherent relationships between contexts and images across different visual scales, thereby resulting in the loss of critical information pertinent to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Bin Ma , Yifei Zhang , Yongjin Xian , Qi Li , Linna Zhou , Gongxun Miao

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) carry the potential to support humans in processing vast amounts of information. While MLLMs are already being used as a fact-checking tool, their abilities and limitations in this regard are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Jiahui Geng , Yova Kementchedjhieva , Preslav Nakov , Iryna Gurevych

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection has seen significant advancements with zero-shot approaches by leveraging the powerful Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP. However, prior research works have predominantly focused on enhancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Pei-Kang Lee , Jun-Cheng Chen , Ja-Ling Wu

Interpreting the decisions of deep learning models has been actively studied since the explosion of deep neural networks. One of the most convincing interpretation approaches is salience-based visual interpretation, such as Grad-CAM, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yiming Lei , Zilong Li , Yangyang Li , Junping Zhang , Hongming Shan

The proliferation of multi-modal fake news on social media poses a significant threat to public trust and social stability. Traditional detection methods, primarily text-based, often fall short due to the deceptive interplay between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Junhao He , Tianyu Liu , Jingyuan Zhao , Benjamin Turner

We present a new methodology for detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) images by utilizing norms of the score estimates at multiple noise scales. A score is defined to be the gradient of the log density with respect to the input data. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Ahsan Mahmood , Junier Oliva , Martin Styner

Recently, Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant performance across various video understanding tasks. However, their robustness, particularly when faced with manipulated video content, remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zixi Yang , Jiapeng Li , Muxi Diao , Yinuo Jing , Kongming Liang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are prone to generating fluent but incorrect content, known as confabulation, which poses increasing risks in multi-turn or agentic applications where outputs may be reused as context. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Tianyi Zhou , Johanne Medina , Sanjay Chawla

The proliferation of multimedia content on social media platforms has dramatically transformed how information is consumed and disseminated. While this shift enables real-time coverage of global events, it also facilitates the rapid spread…

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have aimed to integrate and interpret data across diverse modalities. However, the capacity of these models to concurrently process and reason about multiple modalities remains…

Social media is accompanied by an increasing proportion of content that provides fake information or misleading content, known as information disorder. In this paper, we study the problem of multimodal fake news detection on a largescale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Armin Kirchknopf , Djordje Slijepcevic , Matthias Zeppelzauer

Recent advancements have enhanced the capability of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to comprehend multi-image information. However, existing benchmarks primarily evaluate answer correctness, overlooking whether models genuinely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Pengfei Wang , Guohai Xu , Weinong Wang , Junjie Yang , Jie Lou , Yunhua Xue

As social media becomes increasingly prominent in our day to day lives, it is increasingly important to detect informative content and prevent the spread of disinformation and unverified rumours. While many sophisticated and successful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Kellin Pelrine , Jacob Danovitch , Reihaneh Rabbany

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in reasoning, positioning them as promising tools for supporting human problem-solving. However, what happens when their performance is affected by misinformation, i.e.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yiyang Feng , Yichen Wang , Shaobo Cui , Boi Faltings , Mina Lee , Jiawei Zhou

The spread of misinformation on social media platforms threatens democratic processes, contributes to massive economic losses, and endangers public health. Many efforts to address misinformation focus on a knowledge deficit model and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Saadia Gabriel , Liang Lyu , James Siderius , Marzyeh Ghassemi , Jacob Andreas , Asu Ozdaglar

In this paper, we focus on resolving the problem of image outpainting, which aims to extrapolate the surrounding parts given the center contents of an image. Although recent works have achieved promising performance, the lack of versatility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Jinze Yang , Haoran Wang , Zining Zhu , Chenglong Liu , Meng Wymond Wu , Mingming Sun

Multimodal news contains a wealth of information and is easily affected by deepfake modeling attacks. To combat the latest image and text generation methods, we present a new Multimodal Fake News Detection dataset (MFND) containing 11…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ye Zhu , Yunan Wang , Zitong Yu

In the battle against widespread online misinformation, a growing problem is text-image inconsistency, where images are misleadingly paired with texts with different intent or meaning. Existing classification-based methods for text-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Mingzhen Huang , Shan Jia , Zhou Zhou , Yan Ju , Jialing Cai , Siwei Lyu

Current instruction-based editing methods, such as InstructPix2Pix, often fail to produce satisfactory results in complex scenarios due to their dependence on the simple CLIP text encoder in diffusion models. To rectify this, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Yuzhou Huang , Liangbin Xie , Xintao Wang , Ziyang Yuan , Xiaodong Cun , Yixiao Ge , Jiantao Zhou , Chao Dong , Rui Huang , Ruimao Zhang , Ying Shan