Xiaoya Fang
Author directory2026
OVLAFND: Open-Vocabulary Logic-Aware Fake News Detection
Xiaoya Fang | Lin Chen
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Xiaoya Fang | Lin Chen
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Multimodal fake news detection is critical for maintaining the integrity of social media. Current models often rely on shallow cross-modal correlations and rigid domain labels, which limits robustness to logical inconsistency and domain shift. We propose the Open-Vocabulary and Logic-Aware Fake News Detection (OVLAFND) framework to address these issues and relax traditional categorization constraints. To model fine-grained logical conflicts rather than surface relevance, our framework introduces Logical Adversarial Data Augmentation (LADA), a multimodal LLM-driven pipeline that constructs counterfactual text-image pairs as hard negatives. Then, we propose a Logic Consistency Module (LCM) that uses these adversarial signals to learn a dedicated logic-consistency subspace for assessing whether textual claims are supported by visual evidence. To improve topic flexibility, we transform the rigid domain labels into an Open-Vocabulary Topic Manifold (OVTM) to achieve highly interpretable and label-free topic reasoning. Across Weibo and Weibo-21, OVLAFND achieves competitive fixed-domain performance and better leave-one-domain-out generalization. Our code is available at https://github.com/lllfxy/OVLAFND.