RELIANCE: Reliable Ensemble Learning for Information and News Credibility Evaluation
This addresses the challenge of fake news detection for information consumers, but it is incremental as it builds on existing ensemble methods.
The paper tackles the problem of evaluating news credibility by introducing RELIANCE, an ensemble learning system that combines five base models, and it demonstrates superior accuracy over individual models and baselines in distinguishing credible from non-credible sources.
In the era of information proliferation, discerning the credibility of news content poses an ever-growing challenge. This paper introduces RELIANCE, a pioneering ensemble learning system designed for robust information and fake news credibility evaluation. Comprising five diverse base models, including Support Vector Machine (SVM), naive Bayes, logistic regression, random forest, and Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory Networks (BiLSTMs), RELIANCE employs an innovative approach to integrate their strengths, harnessing the collective intelligence of the ensemble for enhanced accuracy. Experiments demonstrate the superiority of RELIANCE over individual models, indicating its efficacy in distinguishing between credible and non-credible information sources. RELIANCE, also surpasses baseline models in information and news credibility assessment, establishing itself as an effective solution for evaluating the reliability of information sources.