The Evolving Art of Fake News

A framework generates strategically tailored disinformation by leveraging a five-level taxonomy of topical domains and falsity, operationalized through a pipeline that extracts claims and context, employs both single- and multi-round prompting for content creation, and incorporates expert validation alongside iterative optimization and quality control to finalize deceptive content.

New research introduces a comprehensive benchmark designed to stress-test fake news detection systems against increasingly sophisticated, strategically-crafted misinformation.

The Hidden Logic of Learning

The analysis of delta effective rank within the MLP up-projection layers of four language models-Qwen3-VL-4B, InternVL3.5-4B, and two versions of AndesVL-4B-reveals that while Qwen3-VL-4B and InternVL3.5-4B exhibit substantial, layer-specific oscillations indicative of targeted rank expansion and contraction during instruction and reasoning alignment, AndesVL-4B-Instruct demonstrates a comparatively static rank geometry, suggesting that its adaptation to reasoning tasks primarily involves parameter magnitude changes rather than broad representational restructuring-a phenomenon consistent with structural limitations in its adaptation capacity.

New research reveals how data distribution shapes the learning process in large language models, exposing distinct patterns in how these systems acquire knowledge.