BiSaGA: A Novel Bidirectional Sparse Graph Attention Adapter for Evidence-Based Fact-Checking
摘要
Evidence-based fact-checking aims to verify or debunk claims using evidence and has greatly benefited from advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs). This task relies on clarifying and discriminating relations between entities. However, autoregressive LLMs struggle with understanding relations presented in different orders or narratives, as their unidirectional nature hampers effective performance. To address this challenge, we propose a novel method that leverages bidirectional attention as an external adapter to facilitate two-way information aggregation. Additionally, we employ hierarchical sparse graphs to merge local and global information and introduce an efficient feature-compression technique to minimize the number of adapter parameters. Experimental results on both English and Chinese datasets demonstrate the significant improvements achieved by our approach, showcasing state-of-the-art performance in the evidence-based fact-checking task.