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This paper describes our participant system for the multi-modal fact verification (Factify) challenge at AAAI 2022. Despite the recent advance in text based verification techniques and large pre-trained multimodal models cross vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jie Gao , Hella-Franziska Hoffmann , Stylianos Oikonomou , David Kiskovski , Anil Bandhakavi

In today's digital era, the rapid spread of misinformation poses threats to public well-being and societal trust. As online misinformation proliferates, manual verification by fact checkers becomes increasingly challenging. We introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Eun Cheol Choi , Emilio Ferrara

The internet gives the world an open platform to express their views and share their stories. While this is very valuable, it makes fake news one of our society's most pressing problems. Manual fact checking process is time consuming, which…

State-of-the-art single-agent claim verification methods struggle with complex claims that require nuanced analysis of multifaceted evidence. Inspired by real-world professional fact-checkers, we propose \textbf{DebateCV}, the first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Haorui He , Yupeng Li , Dacheng Wen , Yang Chen , Reynold Cheng , Donglong Chen , Francis C. M. Lau

Cross-modal retrieval relies on accurate models to retrieve relevant results for queries across modalities such as image, text, and video. In this paper, we build upon previous work by tackling the difficulty of evaluating models both…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Tony Zhao , Jaeyoung Choi , Gerald Friedland

Misinformation can be countered with fact-checking, but the process is costly and slow. Identifying checkworthy claims is the first step, where automation can help scale fact-checkers' efforts. However, detection methods struggle with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Michiel van der Meer , Pavel Korshunov , Sébastien Marcel , Lonneke van der Plas

We present SciClaimEval, a new scientific dataset for the claim verification task. Unlike existing resources, SciClaimEval features authentic claims, including refuted ones, directly extracted from published papers. To create refuted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Xanh Ho , Yun-Ang Wu , Sunisth Kumar , Tian Cheng Xia , Florian Boudin , Andre Greiner-Petter , Akiko Aizawa

With social media usage growing exponentially in the past few years, fake news has also become extremely prevalent. The detrimental impact of fake news emphasizes the need for research focused on automating the detection of false…

The increased use of large language models (LLMs) across a variety of real-world applications calls for mechanisms to verify the factual accuracy of their outputs. In this work, we present a holistic end-to-end solution for annotating the…

Our society is facing rampant misinformation harming public health and trust. To address the societal challenge, we introduce FACT-GPT, a system leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate the claim matching stage of fact-checking.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Eun Cheol Choi , Emilio Ferrara

In this paper, we present the Logically submissions to De-Factify 2 challenge (DE-FACTIFY 2023) on the task 1 of Multi-Modal Fact Checking. We describes our submissions to this challenge including explored evidence retrieval and selection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Pim Jordi Verschuuren , Jie Gao , Adelize van Eeden , Stylianos Oikonomou , Anil Bandhakavi

The increasing multimodal disinformation, where deceptive claims are reinforced through coordinated text and visual content, poses significant challenges to automated fact-checking. Recent efforts leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Haoran Ou , Gelei Deng , Xingshuo Han , Jie Zhang , Han Qiu , Shangwei Guo , Tianwei Zhang

Multimodal fake news detection often involves modelling heterogeneous data sources, such as vision and language. Existing detection methods typically rely on fusion effectiveness and cross-modal consistency to model the content,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Lingzhi Shen , Yunfei Long , Xiaohao Cai , Imran Razzak , Guanming Chen , Kang Liu , Shoaib Jameel

Video Large Multimodal Models (VLMMs) have made impressive strides in understanding video content, but they often struggle with abstract and adaptive reasoning-the ability to revise their interpretations when new information emerges. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yue Zhang , Jilei Sun , Yunhui Guo , Vibhav Gogate

Misalignment between claims and their cited evidence is a common failure mode in reports generated by large language models, limiting their reliability in scientific and other high-stakes settings. We present DeepSciVerify, a two-stage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Shaghayegh Sadeghi , Khashayar Khajavi , Rise Adhikari , Alexander Tessier

Large Language Models tend to struggle when dealing with specialized domains. While all aspects of evaluation hold importance, factuality is the most critical one. Similarly, reliable fact-checking tools and data sources are essential for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Anum Afzal , Juraj Vladika , Florian Matthes

The ability to distinguish whether an image is generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is a crucial ingredient in human intelligence, usually accompanied by a complex and dialectical forensic and reasoning process. However, current fake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yixuan Li , Xuelin Liu , Xiaoyang Wang , Bu Sung Lee , Shiqi Wang , Anderson Rocha , Weisi Lin

Given the growing influx of misinformation across news and social media, there is a critical need for systems that can provide effective real-time verification of news claims. Large language or multimodal model based verification has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jaeyoung Lee , Ximing Lu , Jack Hessel , Faeze Brahman , Youngjae Yu , Yonatan Bisk , Yejin Choi , Saadia Gabriel

The increased use of large language models (LLMs) across a variety of real-world applications calls for automatic tools to check the factual accuracy of their outputs, as LLMs often hallucinate. This is difficult as it requires assessing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Hasan Iqbal , Yuxia Wang , Minghan Wang , Georgi Georgiev , Jiahui Geng , Iryna Gurevych , Preslav Nakov

Medical diagnostics is a high-stakes and complex domain that is critical to patient care. However, current evaluations of large language models (LLMs) remain limited in capturing key challenges of clinical diagnostic scenarios. Most rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xiangxu Zhang , Lei Li , Yanyun Zhou , Xiao Zhou , Yingying Zhang , Xian Wu