RADAR: Retrieval-Augmented Detector with Adversarial Refinement for Robust Fake News Detection
Song-Duo Ma, Yi-Hung Liu, Hsin-Yu Lin, Pin-Yu Chen, Hong-Yan Huang, Shau-Yung Hsu, Yun-Nung Chen · Jan 7, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Abstract
To efficiently combat the spread of LLM-generated misinformation, we present RADAR, a Retrieval-Augmented Detector with Adversarial Refinement for robust fake news detection. Our approach employs a generator that rewrites real articles with factual perturbations, paired with a lightweight detector that verifies claims using dense passage retrieval. To enable effective co-evolution, we introduce verbal adversarial feedback (VAF). Rather than relying on scalar rewards, VAF issues structured natural-language critiques; these guide the generator toward more sophisticated evasion attempts, compelling the detector to adapt and improve. On a fake news detection benchmark, RADAR consistently outperforms strong retrieval-augmented trainable baselines, as well as general-purpose LLMs with retrieval. Further analysis shows that detector-side retrieval yields the largest gains, while VAF and few-shot demonstrations provide complementary benefits. RADAR also transfers better to fake news generated by an unseen external attacker, indicating improved robustness beyond the co-evolved training setting.