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The rapid development of social media platforms has made them one of the most important news sources. While it provides people with convenient real-time communication channels, fake news and rumors are also spread rapidly through social media platforms, misleading the public and even causing bad social impact. In view of the slow speed and poor consistency of artificial rumor detection, we propose an end-to-end automatic rumor detection model named TMIF, which is based on transformer to map multi-modal feature representations to the same data domain for fusion. It can capture the multi-level dependencies among multi-modal content while reducing the impact of multi-modal heterogeneity differences. We validated it on two multi-modal rumor detection datasets and proved the superior performance and early detection performance of the proposed model.
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The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees for their valuable comments and helpful suggestions. This work was supported by National Key R&D Program of China(No. 2019YFB1404700).
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Lv, J., Wang, X. & Shao, C. TMIF: transformer-based multi-modal interactive fusion for automatic rumor detection. Multimedia Systems 29, 2979–2989 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-022-00916-8
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