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On Unifying Misinformation Detection

arXiv 2104.05243 ↗First posted 12 Apr 2021cs.AI cs.CLcited by 10

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Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we introduce UnifiedM2, a general-purpose misinformation model that jointly models multiple domains of misinformation with a single, unified setup. The model is trained to handle four tasks: detecting news bias, clickbait, fake news, and verifying rumors. By grouping these tasks together, UnifiedM2learns a richer representation of misinformation, which leads to state-of-the-art or comparable performance across all tasks. Furthermore, we demonstrate that UnifiedM2's learned representation is helpful for few-shot learning of unseen misinformation tasks/datasets and model's generalizability to unseen events.

Key facts. Cited by 10 papers in the map (data through 13 Oct 2026). Builds on 20 of its 38 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 12 Apr 2021.

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Citing papers per year: 2021: 2; 2022: 2; 2023: 2; 2024: 4.

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  1. 2023Towards Reliable Misinformation Mitigation: Generalization, Uncertainty, and GPT-4cited by 45
  2. 2021Assessing Political Prudence of Open-domain Chatbotscited by 20
  3. 2022Human-in-the-loop Evaluation for Early Misinformation Detection: A Case Study of COVID-19 Treatmentscited by 14
  4. 2022Improved Adaptive Algorithm for Scalable Active Learning with Weak Labelercited by 4
  5. 2024MAGPIE: Multi-Task Media-Bias Analysis Generalization for Pre-Trained Identification of Expressionscited by 4
  6. 2021Dynamically Addressing Unseen Rumor via Continual Learningcited by 3
  7. 2024How to Train Your Fact Verifier: Knowledge Transfer with Multimodal Open Modelscited by 3
  8. 2024Yesterday's News: Benchmarking Multi-Dimensional Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Misinformation Detection Modelscited by 3
  9. 2023BanglaBait: Semi-Supervised Adversarial Approach for Clickbait Detection on Bangla Clickbait Datasetcited by 1
  10. 2024A (More) Realistic Evaluation Setup for Generalisation of Community Models on Malicious Content Detectioncited by 1