The paper introduces MAGER, a multi-agent genetic evolution framework that automatically discovers meta-paths for large language models (LLMs) to reason about fake news propagation graphs. By compressing complex propagation structures into informative subgraphs, MAGER reduces modality mismatch and information overload, enabling frozen LLMs to perform structure-aware veracity reasoning. The authors also propose a graph in-context learning strategy that retrieves semantically and structurally similar demonstrations to enhance classification and reasoning, and report that MAGER significantly improves LLM performance in data‑efficient settings.
By Ziyi Zhou, Xiaoming Zhang, Hui Pang, Yuting Zhang, Tiesunlong Shen, Bingyu Yan, Erik Cambria, Litian Zhang
arXiv:2609.36850v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generative content is increasingly entering the production and dissemination of news, transforming fake news from manually fabricated or simply manipul...
By Wenbin Shen, Guoxuan Qin, Guangxu Yao, Baodong Wang, Yuanbo Rui, Zhichao Lian
The paper investigates whether multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can generate and detect realistic multimodal fake news on social media. Using a multi‑agent framework—comprising a story agent, an image agent, and a critic agent—the authors produced over 9,000 paired multimodal news posts across science, health, and entertainment domains. They benchmarked 16 open‑ and closed‑source MLLMs for automated detection and found that most models fall far short of human accuracy, especially in identifying image authenticity, highlighting the need for stronger defenses against social media fake news.
By Jiyao Yang, Yang Liu, Zhenyue Qin, Qingyu Chen, Xiuzhen Zhang
arXiv:2606. 27736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid spread of fake news poses increasing threats to information ecosystems, especially as AI-generated misinformation under Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) poisoning allows adversarially crafted content to be systematically surfaced by retrieval systems, contaminating LLM reasoning.
By Zhaoqi Wang, Zijian Zhang, Kun Zheng, Zhen Li, Xin Li, Chunlei Li, Jiamou Liu
arXiv:2606. 24965v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning about relational structures remains a significant challenge for neural models, particularly when they must systematically apply learned knowledge to problem instances that are harder than those seen in training.
By Anirban Das, Joanne Boisson, Irtaza Khalid, Sumita Garai, Steven Schockaert
arXiv:2501. 14728v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models have achieved significant success, their misuse for generating deceptive content raises growing concerns about online information security.
By Zehong Yan, Peng Qi, Wynne Hsu, Mong Li Lee
arXiv:2601. 08187v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities in Text-Attributed Graph (TAG) understanding.
By Zijun Di, Bin Lu, Huquan Kang, Luoyi Fu, Jiaxin Ding, Xiaoying Gan, Lei Zhou, Xinbing Wang
arXiv:2601.03981v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: To efficiently combat the spread of LLM-generated misinformation in the news domain, we present RADAR, a Retrieval-Augmented Detector with Adversar...
By Song-Duo Ma, Yi-Hung Liu, Hsin-Yu Lin, Pin-Yu Chen, Hong-Yan Huang, Shau-Yung Hsu, Yun-Nung Chen
arXiv:2604. 12503v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across various tasks but remain prone to hallucinations in knowledge-intensive scenarios.
By Shuai Wang, Xixi Wang, Yinan Yu
arXiv:2606. 01441v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel in reasoning and knowledge-intensive tasks but remain vulnerable to prompt-level adversarial attacks that preserve intent while triggering commonsense hallucinations.
By Boxuan Wang, Zhuoyun Li, Xiaowei Huang, Yi Dong
KGFR introduces a Knowledge Graph Foundation Retriever that collaborates with large language models to enhance knowledge‑intensive question answering. By encoding relations with LLM‑generated descriptions and initializing entities from question roles, KGFR enables zero‑shot generalization to unseen knowledge graphs. Its Asymmetric Progressive Propagation technique efficiently handles large graphs, while a controllable reasoning loop allows the LLM to request candidate answers, supporting facts, and reasoning paths.
By Yuanning Cui, Zequn Sun, Wei Hu, Zhangjie Fu
arXiv:2606. 26552v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid advancement of generative models presents a significant challenge to existing deepfake detection methods, particularly given the widespread dissemination of highly realistic AI-generated images.
By Yangjun Wu, Keyu Yan, Yu Liu, Jingren Zhou, Fei Huang, Rong Zhang, Zhou Zhao, Fei Wu