Salah Uddin
2026
Do Not Guess, Verify: Logic-Guided Adaptive Reasoning for Multimodal Misinformation Detection
Kun Huang | Rui Qiu | Xiaoming Li | Salah Uddin
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Kun Huang | Rui Qiu | Xiaoming Li | Salah Uddin
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Recent advances in Large Vision–language Models (VLMs) suggest their potential for multimodal misinformation detection. However, existing multimodal misinformation detectors often fail to effectively integrate them, relying instead on passive aggregation of multimodal features and social signals. Such correlation-driven paradigms are vulnerable to spurious associations and multimodal noise, and lack explicit verification mechanisms. In this paper, we propose Logic-Guided Adaptive Reasoning (LoGAR), a verification-oriented framework that integrates VLMs into multimodal misinformation detection through explicit rationale-guided reasoning. LoGAR leverages a VLM to generate an explicit verification rationale, which serves as a global semantic anchor to condition the entire reasoning process. Concretely, the rationale functions as an active query to guide multimodal feature fusion and as a conditioning signal to modulate message passing over heterogeneous social graphs, enabling hypothesis-aware evidence aggregation. Furthermore, LoGAR introduces an instance-aware adaptive depth mechanism that dynamically determines the required reasoning depth. Experimental results on multiple multimodal misinformation benchmarks demonstrate that LoGAR consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods while significantly reducing computational cost.
2020
An Online Semantic-enhanced Dirichlet Model for Short Text Stream Clustering
Jay Kumar | Junming Shao | Salah Uddin | Wazir Ali
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Jay Kumar | Junming Shao | Salah Uddin | Wazir Ali
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Clustering short text streams is a challenging task due to its unique properties: infinite length, sparse data representation and cluster evolution. Existing approaches often exploit short text streams in a batch way. However, determine the optimal batch size is usually a difficult task since we have no priori knowledge when the topics evolve. In addition, traditional independent word representation in graphical model tends to cause “term ambiguity” problem in short text clustering. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an Online Semantic-enhanced Dirichlet Model for short sext stream clustering, called OSDM, which integrates the word-occurance semantic information (i.e., context) into a new graphical model and clusters each arriving short text automatically in an online way. Extensive results have demonstrated that OSDM has better performance compared to many state-of-the-art algorithms on both synthetic and real-world data sets.