Multi-view autoencoders for Fake News Detection

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Main Authors: Pereira, Ingryd V. S. T., Cavalcanti, George D. C., Cruz, Rafael M. O.
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Published: 2025
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author Pereira, Ingryd V. S. T.
Cavalcanti, George D. C.
Cruz, Rafael M. O.
author_facet Pereira, Ingryd V. S. T.
Cavalcanti, George D. C.
Cruz, Rafael M. O.
contents Given the volume and speed at which fake news spreads across social media, automatic fake news detection has become a highly important task. However, this task presents several challenges, including extracting textual features that contain relevant information about fake news. Research about fake news detection shows that no single feature extraction technique consistently outperforms the others across all scenarios. Nevertheless, different feature extraction techniques can provide complementary information about the textual data and enable a more comprehensive representation of the content. This paper proposes using multi-view autoencoders to generate a joint feature representation for fake news detection by integrating several feature extraction techniques commonly used in the literature. Experiments on fake news datasets show a significant improvement in classification performance compared to individual views (feature representations). We also observed that selecting a subset of the views instead of composing a latent space with all the views can be advantageous in terms of accuracy and computational effort. For further details, including source codes, figures, and datasets, please refer to the project's repository: https://github.com/ingrydpereira/multiview-fake-news.
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spellingShingle Multi-view autoencoders for Fake News Detection
Pereira, Ingryd V. S. T.
Cavalcanti, George D. C.
Cruz, Rafael M. O.
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Given the volume and speed at which fake news spreads across social media, automatic fake news detection has become a highly important task. However, this task presents several challenges, including extracting textual features that contain relevant information about fake news. Research about fake news detection shows that no single feature extraction technique consistently outperforms the others across all scenarios. Nevertheless, different feature extraction techniques can provide complementary information about the textual data and enable a more comprehensive representation of the content. This paper proposes using multi-view autoencoders to generate a joint feature representation for fake news detection by integrating several feature extraction techniques commonly used in the literature. Experiments on fake news datasets show a significant improvement in classification performance compared to individual views (feature representations). We also observed that selecting a subset of the views instead of composing a latent space with all the views can be advantageous in terms of accuracy and computational effort. For further details, including source codes, figures, and datasets, please refer to the project's repository: https://github.com/ingrydpereira/multiview-fake-news.
title Multi-view autoencoders for Fake News Detection
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08102