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RED-DOT: Multimodal Fact-checking via Relevant Evidence Detection

16 Nov 2023arXiv:2311.09939archive 2025-07-28

Stefanos-Iordanis Papadopoulos, Christos Koutlis, Symeon Papadopoulos, Panagiotis C. Petrantonakis

Online misinformation is often multimodal in nature, i.e., it is caused by misleading associations between texts and accompanying images. To support the fact-checking process, researchers have been recently developing automatic multimodal methods that gather and analyze external information, evidence, related to the image-text pairs under examination. However, prior works assumed all external information collected from the web to be relevant. In this study, we introduce a "Relevant Evidence Detection" (RED) module to discern whether each piece of evidence is relevant, to support or refute the claim. Specifically, we develop the "Relevant Evidence Detection Directed Transformer" (RED-DOT) and explore multiple architectural variants (e.g., single or dual-stage) and mechanisms (e.g., "guided attention"). Extensive ablation and comparative experiments demonstrate that RED-DOT achieves significant improvements over the state-of-the-art (SotA) on the VERITE benchmark by up to 33.7%. Furthermore, our evidence re-ranking and element-wise modality fusion led to RED-DOT surpassing the SotA on NewsCLIPings+ by up to 3% without the need for numerous evidence or multiple backbone encoders. We release our code at: https://github.com/stevejpapad/relevant-evidence-detection

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