Multilevel Attention Residual Neural Network for Multimodal Online Social Network Rumor Detection

In recent years, with the rapid rise of social networks, such as Weibo and Twitter, multimodal social network rumors have also spread. Unlike traditional unimodal rumor detection, the main difficulty of multimodal rumor detection is in avoiding the generation of noise information while using the com...

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Main Authors: Sui, J. (Author), Wang, Z. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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520 3 |a In recent years, with the rapid rise of social networks, such as Weibo and Twitter, multimodal social network rumors have also spread. Unlike traditional unimodal rumor detection, the main difficulty of multimodal rumor detection is in avoiding the generation of noise information while using the complementarity of different modal features. In this article, we propose a multimodal online social network rumor detection model based on the multilevel attention residual neural network (MARN). First, the features of text and image are extracted by Bert and ResNet-18, respectively, and the cross-attention residual mechanism is used to enhance the representation of images with a text vector. Second, the enhanced image vector and text vector are concatenated and fused by the self-attention residual mechanism. Finally, the fused image–text vectors are classified into two categories. Among them, the attention mechanism can effectively enhance the image representation and further improve the fusion effect between the image and the text, while the residual mechanism retains the unique attributes of each original modal feature while using different modal features. To assess the performance of the MARN model, we conduct experiments on the Weibo dataset, and the results show that the MARN model outperforms the state-of-the-art models in terms of accuracy and F1 value. © Copyright © 2021 Wang and Sui. 
650 0 4 |a attention residual network 
650 0 4 |a multimodal fusion 
650 0 4 |a neural networks 
650 0 4 |a online social networks 
650 0 4 |a rumor detection 
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700 1 |a Wang, Z.  |e author 
773 |t Frontiers in Physics