Multimodal Fact Checking with Unified Visual, Textual, and Contextual Representations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05097v1
• Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2025 07:36:53 GMT
• Title: Multimodal Fact Checking with Unified Visual, Textual, and Contextual Representations
• Authors: Aditya Kishore, Gaurav Kumar, Jasabanta Patro,
• Abstract summary: We propose a unified framework for fine-grained multimodal fact verification called "MultiCheck"<n>Our architecture combines dedicated encoders for text and images with a fusion module that captures cross-modal relationships using element-wise interactions.<n>We evaluate our approach on the Factify 2 dataset, achieving a weighted F1 score of 0.84, substantially outperforming the baseline.
• Score: 2.139909491081949
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The growing rate of multimodal misinformation, where claims are supported by both text and images, poses significant challenges to fact-checking systems that rely primarily on textual evidence. In this work, we have proposed a unified framework for fine-grained multimodal fact verification called "MultiCheck", designed to reason over structured textual and visual signals. Our architecture combines dedicated encoders for text and images with a fusion module that captures cross-modal relationships using element-wise interactions. A classification head then predicts the veracity of a claim, supported by a contrastive learning objective that encourages semantic alignment between claim-evidence pairs in a shared latent space. We evaluate our approach on the Factify 2 dataset, achieving a weighted F1 score of 0.84, substantially outperforming the baseline. These results highlight the effectiveness of explicit multimodal reasoning and demonstrate the potential of our approach for scalable and interpretable fact-checking in complex, real-world scenarios.

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