Addressing Data Scarcity in Bangla Fake News Detection: An LLM-Based Dataset Augmentation Approach
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| author | Sani, Ahmed Alfey Zaoad, Kazi Akib Adib, Shefayat E Shams Muqtadir, Md Abdul Abrar, Ajwad |
| author_facet | Sani, Ahmed Alfey Zaoad, Kazi Akib Adib, Shefayat E Shams Muqtadir, Md Abdul Abrar, Ajwad |
| contents | The growing spread of misinformation in digital media highlights the need for reliable fake news detection systems, yet progress in under-resourced languages such as Bangla is limited by small and imbalanced datasets. This study investigates whether Large Language Model (LLM) based augmentation can effectively address this limitation and improve Bangla fake news classification. Existing datasets remain valuable but highly imbalanced, limiting model performance, and LLM based augmentation for Bangla has been scarcely explored. To fill this gap, we propose a systematic augmentation framework that generates synthetic Bangla news articles using the instruction tuned Gemma 3 27B IT model, supported by semantic filtering and controlled subsampling to preserve label consistency and diversity. We compare zero shot and few shot prompting, evaluate multiple augmentation rates, and examine random versus similarity-based selection strategies. Our experiments show that augmenting only the minority class with a high augmentation rate and random subsampling yields the strongest gains, raising the Fake News F1 score from 0.85 to 0.88. To support reproducibility and further research in this low-resource domain, we publicly release 4,545 synthetically generated Bangla fake news samples along with our full implementation. These findings demonstrate that well-designed LLM-driven augmentation can significantly improve fake news detection in low resource settings and provide a practical foundation for advancing multilingual misinformation research. |
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| spellingShingle | Addressing Data Scarcity in Bangla Fake News Detection: An LLM-Based Dataset Augmentation Approach Sani, Ahmed Alfey Zaoad, Kazi Akib Adib, Shefayat E Shams Muqtadir, Md Abdul Abrar, Ajwad Computation and Language The growing spread of misinformation in digital media highlights the need for reliable fake news detection systems, yet progress in under-resourced languages such as Bangla is limited by small and imbalanced datasets. This study investigates whether Large Language Model (LLM) based augmentation can effectively address this limitation and improve Bangla fake news classification. Existing datasets remain valuable but highly imbalanced, limiting model performance, and LLM based augmentation for Bangla has been scarcely explored. To fill this gap, we propose a systematic augmentation framework that generates synthetic Bangla news articles using the instruction tuned Gemma 3 27B IT model, supported by semantic filtering and controlled subsampling to preserve label consistency and diversity. We compare zero shot and few shot prompting, evaluate multiple augmentation rates, and examine random versus similarity-based selection strategies. Our experiments show that augmenting only the minority class with a high augmentation rate and random subsampling yields the strongest gains, raising the Fake News F1 score from 0.85 to 0.88. To support reproducibility and further research in this low-resource domain, we publicly release 4,545 synthetically generated Bangla fake news samples along with our full implementation. These findings demonstrate that well-designed LLM-driven augmentation can significantly improve fake news detection in low resource settings and provide a practical foundation for advancing multilingual misinformation research. |
| title | Addressing Data Scarcity in Bangla Fake News Detection: An LLM-Based Dataset Augmentation Approach |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01292 |