T^2Agent A Tool-augmented Multimodal Misinformation Detection Agent with Monte Carlo Tree Search

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19768v1
• Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 09:50:55 GMT
• Title: T^2Agent A Tool-augmented Multimodal Misinformation Detection Agent with Monte Carlo Tree Search
• Authors: Xing Cui, Yueying Zou, Zekun Li, Peipei Li, Xinyuan Xu, Xuannan Liu, Huaibo Huang, Ran He,
• Abstract summary: multimodal misinformation often arises from mixed forgery sources, requiring dynamic reasoning and adaptive verification.<n>We propose T2Agent, a novel misinformation detection agent that incorporates a toolkit with Monte Carlo Tree Search.<n>Extensive experiments show that T2Agent consistently outperforms existing baselines on challenging mixed-source multimodal misinformation benchmarks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Real-world multimodal misinformation often arises from mixed forgery sources, requiring dynamic reasoning and adaptive verification. However, existing methods mainly rely on static pipelines and limited tool usage, limiting their ability to handle such complexity and diversity. To address this challenge, we propose T2Agent, a novel misinformation detection agent that incorporates an extensible toolkit with Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS). The toolkit consists of modular tools such as web search, forgery detection, and consistency analysis. Each tool is described using standardized templates, enabling seamless integration and future expansion. To avoid inefficiency from using all tools simultaneously, a Bayesian optimization-based selector is proposed to identify a task-relevant subset. This subset then serves as the action space for MCTS to dynamically collect evidence and perform multi-source verification. To better align MCTS with the multi-source nature of misinformation detection, T2Agent extends traditional MCTS with multi-source verification, which decomposes the task into coordinated subtasks targeting different forgery sources. A dual reward mechanism containing a reasoning trajectory score and a confidence score is further proposed to encourage a balance between exploration across mixed forgery sources and exploitation for more reliable evidence. We conduct ablation studies to confirm the effectiveness of the tree search mechanism and tool usage. Extensive experiments further show that T2Agent consistently outperforms existing baselines on challenging mixed-source multimodal misinformation benchmarks, demonstrating its strong potential as a training-free approach for enhancing detection accuracy. The code will be released.

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