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FnRGNN: Distribution-aware Fairness in Graph Neural Network

Machine Learning 2025-10-24 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel at learning from structured data, yet fairness in regression tasks remains underexplored. Existing approaches mainly target classification and representation-level debiasing, which cannot fully address the continuous nature of node-level regression. We propose FnRGNN, a fairness-aware in-processing framework for GNN-based node regression that applies interventions at three levels: (i) structure-level edge reweighting, (ii) representation-level alignment via MMD, and (iii) prediction-level normalization through Sinkhorn-based distribution matching. This multi-level strategy ensures robust fairness under complex graph topologies. Experiments on four real-world datasets demonstrate that FnRGNN reduces group disparities without sacrificing performance. Code is available at https://github.com/sybeam27/FnRGNN.

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@article{arxiv.2510.19257,
  title  = {FnRGNN: Distribution-aware Fairness in Graph Neural Network},
  author = {Soyoung Park and Sungsu Lim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.19257},
  year   = {2025}
}
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