This is the offline-training-pipeline for our project.

We adopt the offline training and online prediction Machine Learning System framework structure.

We used the recent DistilBERT pre-trained large-scale NLP language model and fine-tuned it for the downstream fake news classification task.

Initial fine-tune training dataset are adopted from CONSTRAINT workshop of AAAI21. For offline routine training and updating in the future, we will adopt the Fakenewsnet: A data repository with news content, social context, and spatiotemporal information for studying fake news on social media. Fakenewsnet offers up-to-date datasets and is continuously been updated on a regular basis. We hope to track the lastest trend of popular fake news and broader fake news topic as well by doing offline-training of our model and achieve better performance in the online prediction.

References:

@misc{patwa2020fighting, title={Fighting an Infodemic: COVID-19 Fake News Dataset}, author={Parth Patwa and Shivam Sharma and Srinivas PYKL and Vineeth Guptha and Gitanjali Kumari and Md Shad Akhtar and Asif Ekbal and Amitava Das and Tanmoy Chakraborty}, year={2020}, eprint={2011.03327}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.CL} }

@article{sanh2019distilbert, title={DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter}, author={Sanh, Victor and Debut, Lysandre and Chaumond, Julien and Wolf, Thomas}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.01108}, year={2019} }

@article{shu2020fakenewsnet, title={Fakenewsnet: A data repository with news content, social context, and spatiotemporal information for studying fake news on social media}, author={Shu, Kai and Mahudeswaran, Deepak and Wang, Suhang and Lee, Dongwon and Liu, Huan}, journal={Big data}, volume={8}, number={3}, pages={171--188}, year={2020}, publisher={Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 140 Huguenot Street, 3rd Floor New~…} }