arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 26

MiD-VLM: Detecting and Grounding Global Semantic Misinformation in Image-Caption Pairs

MiD-VLM is a multimodal model that detects and grounds global semantic misinformation in image-caption pairs. It combines image-text representations from SigLIP with visual scene features from DINOv2, and adapts Qwen2‑VL‑7B using LoRA to jointly predict authenticity, identify manipulation type, and localize misleading caption tokens. On the DGM4+ validation split, it achieves an F1 score of 0.9679 for binary authenticity classification.

By Tarunya Prasad, Bharatesh Chakravarthi
arXiv AI
Sep 28

What Improves Multimodal Misinformation Detection? Answers from a Large-Scale Empirical Study

The paper investigates how different multimodal design choices affect the performance of misinformation detection systems. Using over 3,375 experiments across three benchmark datasets and various pre‑trained vision and language models, the authors systematically compare design options and conduct robustness analyses. The study offers practical guidance on which choices improve detection, when they may fail silently, and which pipeline components most influence model behavior, addressing four key research questions.

By Akshit Sharma, Prashant W. Patil