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most citedFighting an Infodemic: COVID-19 Fake News Dataset

273 citations · 329 across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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35 papers

cs.CV2026

Findings of the Counter Turing Test: AI-Generated Image Detection

Rajarshi Roy, Nasrin Imanpour, Ashhar Aziz +16

The rapid advancements in generative AI technologies, such as Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and Midjourney, have significantly transformed the creation of synthetic visual content. Whi…

cs.CL2026

Findings of the Counter Turing Test: AI-Generated Text Detection

Rajarshi Roy, Gurpreet Singh, Ashhar Aziz +16

The growing capability of large language models to produce fluent, contextually coherent text has created mounting pressure on the systems and institutions responsible for ensuring…

cs.CV2026

A Comprehensive Dataset for Human vs. AI Generated Image Detection

Rajarshi Roy, Ashhar Aziz, Shashwat Bajpai +17

Multimodal generative AI systems like Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and MidJourney have fundamentally changed how synthetic images are created. These tools drive innovation but also en…

cs.AI2025

Learning from Generalization Patterns: An Evaluation-Driven Approach to Enhanced Data Augmentation for Fine-Tuning Small Language Models

Huan Song, Deeksha Razdan, Yiyue Qian +6

Small Language Models (SLMs) offer compelling advantages in deployment cost and latency, but their accuracy often lags behind larger models, particularly for complex domain-specifi…

cs.CV2025

DeHate: A Stable Diffusion-based Multimodal Approach to Mitigate Hate Speech in Images

Dwip Dalal, Gautam Vashishtha, Anku Rani +11

The rise in harmful online content not only distorts public discourse but also poses significant challenges to maintaining a healthy digital environment. In response to this, we in…

cs.CL2025

A Comprehensive Dataset for Human vs. AI Generated Text Detection

Rajarshi Roy, Gurpreet Singh, Ashhar Aziz +17

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has led to increasingly human-like AI-generated text, raising concerns about content authenticity, misinformation, and trustwo…

cs.CL2024

LLMsAgainstHate @ NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Hate Speech Detection and Target Identification in Devanagari Languages via Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning of LLMs

Rushendra Sidibomma, Pransh Patwa, Parth Patwa +3

The detection of hate speech has become increasingly important in combating online hostility and its real-world consequences. Despite recent advancements, there is limited research…

cs.CL2024

Overview of Factify5WQA: Fact Verification through 5W Question-Answering

Suryavardan Suresh, Anku Rani, Parth Patwa +6

Researchers have found that fake news spreads much times faster than real news. This is a major problem, especially in today's world where social media is the key source of news fo…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Evidence-backed Fact Checking using RAG and Few-Shot In-Context Learning with LLMs

Ronit Singhal, Pransh Patwa, Parth Patwa +2

Given the widespread dissemination of misinformation on social media, implementing fact-checking mechanisms for online claims is essential. Manually verifying every claim is very c…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Synthetic Data Generation and Joint Learning for Robust Code-Mixed Translation

Kartik Kartik, Sanjana Soni, Anoop Kunchukuttan +2

The widespread online communication in a modern multilingual world has provided opportunities to blend more than one language (aka code-mixed language) in a single utterance. This…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Enhancing Low-Resource LLMs Classification with PEFT and Synthetic Data

Parth Patwa, Simone Filice, Zhiyu Chen +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) operating in 0-shot or few-shot settings achieve competitive results in Text Classification tasks. In-Context Learning (ICL) typically achieves better…

cs.CL2023

CONFLATOR: Incorporating Switching Point based Rotatory Positional Encodings for Code-Mixed Language Modeling

Mohsin Ali, Kandukuri Sai Teja, Neeharika Gupta +5

The mixing of two or more languages is called Code-Mixing (CM). CM is a social norm in multilingual societies. Neural Language Models (NLMs) like transformers have been effective o…

cs.CL2023

Improved Contextual Recognition In Automatic Speech Recognition Systems By Semantic Lattice Rescoring

Ankitha Sudarshan, Vinay Samuel, Parth Patwa +2

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has witnessed a profound research interest. Recent breakthroughs have given ASR systems different prospects such as faithfully transcribing spoke…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Overview of Memotion 3: Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Codemixed Hinglish Memes

Shreyash Mishra, S Suryavardan, Megha Chakraborty +9

Analyzing memes on the internet has emerged as a crucial endeavor due to the impact this multi-modal form of content wields in shaping online discourse. Memes have become a powerfu…

cs.CL2023★ 6 cited

Findings of Factify 2: Multimodal Fake News Detection

S Suryavardan, Shreyash Mishra, Megha Chakraborty +9

With social media usage growing exponentially in the past few years, fake news has also become extremely prevalent. The detrimental impact of fake news emphasizes the need for rese…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

FACTIFY3M: A Benchmark for Multimodal Fact Verification with Explainability through 5W Question-Answering

Megha Chakraborty, Khushbu Pahwa, Anku Rani +15

Combating disinformation is one of the burning societal crises -- about 67% of the American population believes that disinformation produces a lot of uncertainty, and 10% of them k…

cs.CL2023

IMAGINATOR: Pre-Trained Image+Text Joint Embeddings using Word-Level Grounding of Images

Varuna Krishna, S Suryavardan, Shreyash Mishra +6

Word embeddings, i.e., semantically meaningful vector representation of words, are largely influenced by the distributional hypothesis "You shall know a word by the company it keep…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Factify 2: A Multimodal Fake News and Satire News Dataset

S Suryavardan, Shreyash Mishra, Parth Patwa +9

The internet gives the world an open platform to express their views and share their stories. While this is very valuable, it makes fake news one of our society's most pressing pro…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

Memotion 3: Dataset on Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Codemixed Hindi-English Memes

Shreyash Mishra, S Suryavardan, Parth Patwa +9

Memes are the new-age conveyance mechanism for humor on social media sites. Memes often include an image and some text. Memes can be used to promote disinformation or hatred, thus…

cs.LG2021

Memotion Analysis through the Lens of Joint Embedding

Nethra Gunti, Sathyanarayanan Ramamoorthy, Parth Patwa +1

Joint embedding (JE) is a way to encode multi-modal data into a vector space where text remains as the grounding key and other modalities like image are to be anchored with such ke…

cs.CL2021

PESTO: Switching Point based Dynamic and Relative Positional Encoding for Code-Mixed Languages

Mohsin Ali, Kandukuri Sai Teja, Sumanth Manduru +2

NLP applications for code-mixed (CM) or mix-lingual text have gained a significant momentum recently, the main reason being the prevalence of language mixing in social media commun…

cs.CL2021

Offense Detection in Dravidian Languages using Code-Mixing Index based Focal Loss

Debapriya Tula, Shreyas MS, Viswanatha Reddy +5

Over the past decade, we have seen exponential growth in online content fueled by social media platforms. Data generation of this scale comes with the caveat of insurmountable offe…

q-bio.PE2021

Vaccination Worldwide: Strategies, Distribution and Challenges

Chirag Samal, Kasia Jakimowicz, Krishnendu Dasgupta +26

The Coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus represents an unprecedented crisis for our planet. It is a bane of the über connected world that we live in…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Can Self Reported Symptoms Predict Daily COVID-19 Cases?

Parth Patwa, Viswanatha Reddy, Rohan Sukumaran +6

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted lives and economies across the globe, leading to many deaths. While vaccination is an important intervention, its roll-out is slow and unequal ac…