让多模态大模型的注意力头专攻不同模态,提升缺图时的假新闻识别能力。
Head-wise Modality Specialization within MLLMs for Robust Fake News Detection under Missing Modality
- 按模态分配注意力头,强化低贡献模态的独立判断能力。
- 在缺失图像时准确率提升12.7%,全模态下性能不降。
- 适合处理图文缺失场景的假新闻检测系统设计者。
多模态假新闻检测(MFND)通过联合文本与视觉证据验证新闻可信度。然而真实新闻传播中常因图片删除、截图损坏等原因导致模态缺失。为此,需在缺模态情况下仍保持各模态的强验证能力,但现有方法因低贡献模态学习不足及单模态标注稀缺而面临挑战。本文提出在多模态大语言模型(MLLMs)中实现头级模态专业化(Head-wise Modality Specialization),以增强缺模态下的鲁棒性。首先系统研究了MLLM中注意力头与缺模态性能的关系,发现关键模态头是单模态验证能力的关键载体。基于此,引入头级专业化机制,显式分配头至不同模态,并通过下界注意力约束维持其模态专属性。同时提出单模态知识保留策略,防止这些头因监督稀疏而偏离已学知识。实验表明,该方法在缺模态下显著提升鲁棒性,且在完整输入时性能保持不变。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multimodal fake news detection (MFND) aims to verify news credibility by jointly exploiting textual and visual evidence. However, real-world news dissemination frequently suffers from missing modality due to deleted images, corrupted screenshots, and similar issues. Thus, robust detection in this scenario requires preserving strong verification ability for each modality, which is challenging in MFND due to insufficient learning of the low-contribution modality and scarce unimodal annotations. To address this issue, we propose Head-wise Modality Specialization within Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for robust MFND under missing modality. Specifically, we first systematically study attention heads in MLLMs and their relationship with performance under missing modality, showing that modality-critical heads serve as key carriers of unimodal verification ability through their modality specialization. Based on this observation, to better preserve verification ability for the low-contribution modality, we introduce a head-wise specialization mechanism that explicitly allocates these heads to different modalities and preserves their specialization through lower-bound attention constraints. Furthermore, to better exploit scarce unimodal annotations, we propose a Unimodal Knowledge Retention strategy that prevents these heads from drifting away from the unimodal knowledge learned from limited supervision. Experiments show that our method improves robustness under missing modality while preserving performance with full multimodal input.
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