Cross-Modal Augmentation for Few-Shot Multimodal Fake News Detection

The nascent topic of fake news requires automatic detection methods to quickly learn from limited annotated samples. Therefore, the capacity to rapidly acquire proficiency in a new task with limited guidance, also known as few-shot learning, is critical for detecting fake news in its early stages. Existing approaches either involve fine-tuning pre-trained language models which come with a large number of parameters, or training a complex neural network from scratch with large-scale annotated datasets. This paper presents a multimodal fake news detection model which augments multimodal features using unimodal features. For this purpose, we introduce Cross-Modal Augmentation (CMA), a simple approach for enhancing few-shot multimodal fake news detection by transforming n-shot classification into a more robust (n $\times$ z)-shot problem, where z represents the number of supplementary features. The proposed CMA achieves SOTA results over three benchmark datasets, utilizing a surprisingly simple linear probing method to classify multimodal fake news with only a few training samples. Furthermore, our method is significantly more lightweight than prior approaches, particularly in terms of the number of trainable parameters and epoch times. The code is available here: \url{https://github.com/zgjiangtoby/FND_fewshot}

Team QUST at SemEval-2024 Task 8: A Comprehensive Study of Monolingual and Multilingual Approaches for Detecting AI-generated Text

This paper presents the participation of team QUST in Task 8 SemEval 2024. We first performed data augmentation and cleaning on the dataset to enhance model training efficiency and accuracy. In the monolingual task, we evaluated traditional deep-learning methods, multiscale positive-unlabeled framework (MPU), fine-tuning, adapters and ensemble methods. Then, we selected the top-performing models based on their accuracy from the monolingual models and evaluated them in subtasks A and B. The final model construction employed a stacking ensemble that combined fine-tuning with MPU. Our system achieved 8th (scored 8th in terms of accuracy, officially ranked 13th) place in the official test set in multilingual settings of subtask A. We release our system code at:https://github.com/warmth27/SemEval2024_QUST

Similarity-Aware Multimodal Prompt Learning for Fake News Detection

The standard paradigm for fake news detection mainly utilizes text information to model the truthfulness of news. However, the discourse of online fake news is typically subtle and it requires expert knowledge to use textual information to debunk fake news. Recently, studies focusing on multimodal fake news detection have outperformed text-only methods. Recent approaches utilizing the pre-trained model to extract unimodal features, or fine-tuning the pre-trained model directly, have become a new paradigm for detecting fake news. Again, this paradigm either requires a large number of training instances, or updates the entire set of pre-trained model parameters, making real-world fake news detection impractical. Furthermore, traditional multimodal methods fuse the cross-modal features directly without considering that the uncorrelated semantic representation might inject noise into the multimodal features. This paper proposes a Similarity-Aware Multimodal Prompt Learning (SAMPLE) framework. First, we incorporate prompt learning into multimodal fake news detection. Prompt learning, which only tunes prompts with a frozen language model, can reduce memory usage significantly and achieve comparable performances, compared with fine-tuning. We analyse three prompt templates with a soft verbalizer to detect fake news. In addition, we introduce the similarity-aware fusing method to adaptively fuse the intensity of multimodal representation and mitigate the noise injection via uncorrelated cross-modal features. For evaluation, SAMPLE surpasses the F1 and the accuracies of previous works on two benchmark multimodal datasets, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method in detecting fake news. In addition, SAMPLE also is superior to other approaches regardless of few-shot and data-rich settings.