Author name: Mir Nafis Sharear Shopnil, Sharad Duwal, Abhishek Tyagi, Adiba Mahbub Proma

arXiv:2510.17590v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We present MERIT, an inference-time modular framework for multimodal misinformation detection that decomposes verification into four specialized modules: visual forensics, cross-modal alignment, retr…