Summary of Ragar, Your Falsehood Radar: Rag-augmented Reasoning For Political Fact-checking Using Multimodal Large Language Models, by M. Abdul Khaliq et al.
RAGAR, Your Falsehood Radar: RAG-Augmented Reasoning for Political Fact-Checking using Multimodal Large Language Models
by M. Abdul Khaliq, P. Chang, M. Ma, B. Pflugfelder, F. Miletić
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computers and Society (cs.CY); Emerging Technologies (cs.ET); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes an advanced fact-checking solution to combat misinformation in political discourse and multimodal claims. It uses a large language model with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) techniques, including Chain of RAG (CoRAG) and Tree of RAG (ToRAG), to extract textual and image content, retrieve external information, and reason subsequent questions based on prior evidence. The method achieves a weighted F1-score of 0.85, outperforming a baseline technique by 0.14 points. Human evaluation confirms that the generated fact-check explanations accurately capture all relevant information from gold standard data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is trying to solve a big problem: misinformation spreads quickly and it’s hard to stop. They’re working on a machine that can check if something is true or not, especially when there are pictures involved too. It uses some special tricks to find the right answers and make sure they’re correct. The results show that their machine is really good at getting the truth out! People also like how it explains its answers. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Discourse » F1 score » Large language model » Rag » Retrieval augmented generation
