Multimodal Fact-Checking with Vision Language Models: A Probing Classifier based Solution with Embedding Strategies

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Main Authors: Cekinel, Recep Firat, Karagoz, Pinar, Coltekin, Cagri
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Published: 2024
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author Cekinel, Recep Firat
Karagoz, Pinar
Coltekin, Cagri
author_facet Cekinel, Recep Firat
Karagoz, Pinar
Coltekin, Cagri
contents This study evaluates the effectiveness of Vision Language Models (VLMs) in representing and utilizing multimodal content for fact-checking. To be more specific, we investigate whether incorporating multimodal content improves performance compared to text-only models and how well VLMs utilize text and image information to enhance misinformation detection. Furthermore we propose a probing classifier based solution using VLMs. Our approach extracts embeddings from the last hidden layer of selected VLMs and inputs them into a neural probing classifier for multi-class veracity classification. Through a series of experiments on two fact-checking datasets, we demonstrate that while multimodality can enhance performance, fusing separate embeddings from text and image encoders yielded superior results compared to using VLM embeddings. Furthermore, the proposed neural classifier significantly outperformed KNN and SVM baselines in leveraging extracted embeddings, highlighting its effectiveness for multimodal fact-checking.
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spellingShingle Multimodal Fact-Checking with Vision Language Models: A Probing Classifier based Solution with Embedding Strategies
Cekinel, Recep Firat
Karagoz, Pinar
Coltekin, Cagri
Computation and Language
This study evaluates the effectiveness of Vision Language Models (VLMs) in representing and utilizing multimodal content for fact-checking. To be more specific, we investigate whether incorporating multimodal content improves performance compared to text-only models and how well VLMs utilize text and image information to enhance misinformation detection. Furthermore we propose a probing classifier based solution using VLMs. Our approach extracts embeddings from the last hidden layer of selected VLMs and inputs them into a neural probing classifier for multi-class veracity classification. Through a series of experiments on two fact-checking datasets, we demonstrate that while multimodality can enhance performance, fusing separate embeddings from text and image encoders yielded superior results compared to using VLM embeddings. Furthermore, the proposed neural classifier significantly outperformed KNN and SVM baselines in leveraging extracted embeddings, highlighting its effectiveness for multimodal fact-checking.
title Multimodal Fact-Checking with Vision Language Models: A Probing Classifier based Solution with Embedding Strategies
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05155