English
Related papers

Related papers: Multimodal Climate Disinformation Detection: Integ…

200 papers

Visual inputs are often assumed to improve language understanding in multimodal models. We examine this assumption by asking whether vision-language models (VLMs) can distinguish useful visual evidence from incidental image context in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yifan Jiang , Ruoxi Ning , Sheng Yao , Freda Shi

While Large Language Models (LLMs) can amplify online misinformation, they also show promise in tackling misinformation. In this paper, we empirically study the capabilities of three LLMs -- ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude -- in countering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Adiba Mahbub Proma , Neeley Pate , James Druckman , Gourab Ghoshal , Hangfeng He , Ehsan Hoque

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

Current multimodal misinformation detection (MMD) methods often assume a single source and type of forgery for each sample, which is insufficient for real-world scenarios where multiple forgery sources coexist. The lack of a benchmark for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Xuannan Liu , Zekun Li , Peipei Li , Huaibo Huang , Shuhan Xia , Xing Cui , Linzhi Huang , Weihong Deng , Zhaofeng He

Vision-language models (VLMs) have gained widespread adoption in both industry and academia. In this study, we propose a unified framework for systematically evaluating gender, race, and age biases in VLMs with respect to professions. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ashutosh Sathe , Prachi Jain , Sunayana Sitaram

Nowadays, misinformation articles, especially multimodal ones, are widely spread on social media platforms and cause serious negative effects. To control their propagation, Multimodal Misinformation Detection (MMD) becomes an active topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Bing Wang , Ximing Li , Mengzhe Ye , Changchun Li , Bo Fu , Jianfeng Qu , Lin Yuanbo Wu

Current vision-language models (VLMs) still exhibit inferior performance on knowledge-intensive tasks, primarily due to the challenge of accurately encoding all the associations between visual objects and scenes to their corresponding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Jingyuan Qi , Zhiyang Xu , Rulin Shao , Yang Chen , Jin Di , Yu Cheng , Qifan Wang , Lifu Huang

In a globalized world, cultural elements from diverse origins frequently appear together within a single visual scene. We refer to these as culture mixing scenarios, yet how Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) perceive them remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Eunsu Kim , Junyeong Park , Na Min An , Junseong Kim , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel , Jiho Jin , Julia Kruk , Amit Agarwal , Srikant Panda , Fenal Ashokbhai Ilasariya , Hyunjung Shim , Alice Oh

Vision Large Language Models (VLMs) combine visual understanding with natural language processing, enabling tasks like image captioning, visual question answering, and video analysis. While VLMs show impressive capabilities across domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ahmed Sharshar , Latif U. Khan , Waseem Ullah , Mohsen Guizani

Social media is currently being used by many individuals online as a major source of information. However, not all information shared online is true, even photos and videos can be doctored. Deepfakes have recently risen with the rise of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Jacob mallet , Laura Pryor , Rushit Dave , Mounika Vanamala

Uncertainty quantification is essential for assessing the reliability and trustworthiness of modern AI systems. Among existing approaches, verbalized uncertainty, where models express their confidence through natural language, has emerged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Weihao Xuan , Qingcheng Zeng , Heli Qi , Junjue Wang , Naoto Yokoya

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) achieve strong results on multimodal tasks such as visual question answering, yet they can still fail even when the correct visual evidence is present. In this work, we systematically investigate whether these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zhining Liu , Ziyi Chen , Hui Liu , Chen Luo , Xianfeng Tang , Suhang Wang , Joy Zeng , Zhenwei Dai , Zhan Shi , Tianxin Wei , Benoit Dumoulin , Hanghang Tong

Over the past couple of years, the topic of "fake news" and its influence over people's opinions has become a growing cause for concern. Although the spread of disinformation on the Internet is not a new phenomenon, the widespread use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Jillian Tompkins

Misinformation continues to pose a significant challenge in today's information ecosystem, profoundly shaping public perception and behavior. Among its various manifestations, Out-of-Context (OOC) misinformation is particularly obscure, as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yin Wu , Zhengxuan Zhang , Fuling Wang , Yuyu Luo , Hui Xiong , Nan Tang

Misinformation such as fake news is one of the big challenges of our society. Research on automated fact-checking has proposed methods based on supervised learning, but these approaches do not consider external evidence apart from labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Kashyap Popat , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Andrew Yates , Gerhard Weikum

The abundance of information in digital media, which in today's world is the main source of knowledge about current events for the masses, makes it possible to spread disinformation on a larger scale than ever before. Consequently, there is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Jędrzej Kozal , Michał Leś , Paweł Zyblewski , Paweł Ksieniewicz , Michał Woźniak

Despite the impressive performance of autoregressive Language Models (LM) it has been shown that due to reporting bias, LMs lack visual knowledge, i.e. they do not know much about the visual world and its properties. To augment LMs with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Paula Ontalvilla , Aitor Ormazabal , Gorka Azkune

As the real propagation environment becomes in creasingly complex and dynamic, millimeter wave beam prediction faces huge challenges. However, the powerful cross modal representation capability of vision-language model (VLM) provides a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Ji Wang , Bin Tang , Jian Xiao , Qimei Cui , Xingwang Li , Tony Q. S. Quek

The dissemination of false information on online platforms presents a serious societal challenge. While manual fact-checking remains crucial, Large Language Models (LLMs) offer promising opportunities to support fact-checkers with their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Ivan Vykopal , Matúš Pikuliak , Simon Ostermann , Marián Šimko

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