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The success of graph embeddings or node representation learning in a variety of downstream tasks, such as node classification, link prediction, and recommendation systems, has led to their popularity in recent years. Representation learning…

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Fairness, through its many forms and definitions, has become an important issue facing the machine learning community. In this work, we consider how to incorporate group fairness constraints in kernel regression methods, applicable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Jack Fitzsimons , AbdulRahman Al Ali , Michael Osborne , Stephen Roberts

Learning vector representations (aka. embeddings) of users and items lies at the core of modern recommender systems. Ranging from early matrix factorization to recently emerged deep learning based methods, existing efforts typically obtain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He , Meng Wang , Fuli Feng , Tat-Seng Chua

Graph representation learning models have demonstrated great capability in many real-world applications. Nevertheless, prior research indicates that these models can learn biased representations leading to discriminatory outcomes. A few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Yuntian He , Saket Gurukar , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Text classification is a challenging problem which aims to identify the category of texts. In the process of training, word embeddings occupy a large part of parameters. Under the limitation of limited computing resources, it indirectly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Hao Ren , Hong Lu

We present a data-driven framework for learning fair universal representations (FUR) that guarantee statistical fairness for any learning task that may not be known a priori. Our framework leverages recent advances in adversarial learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Peter Kairouz , Jiachun Liao , Chong Huang , Maunil Vyas , Monica Welfert , Lalitha Sankar

Recommender systems have become an essential component of many online platforms, providing personalized recommendations to users. A crucial aspect is embedding techniques that convert the high-dimensional discrete features, such as user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Maolin Wang , Xinjian Zhao , Wanyu Wang , Sheng Zhang , Jiansheng Li , Bowen Yu , Binhao Wang , Shucheng Zhou , Dawei Yin , Qing Li , Ruocheng Guo , Xiangyu Zhao

Graphs, such as social networks, word co-occurrence networks, and communication networks, occur naturally in various real-world applications. Analyzing them yields insight into the structure of society, language, and different patterns of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Palash Goyal , Emilio Ferrara

Graph alignment, the problem of identifying corresponding nodes across multiple graphs, is fundamental to numerous applications. Most existing unsupervised methods embed node features into latent representations to enable cross-graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Maysam Behmanesh , Erkan Turan , Maks Ovsjanikov

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown great power in various domains. However, their predictions may inherit societal biases on sensitive attributes, limiting their adoption in real-world applications. Although many efforts have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Huaisheng Zhu , Guoji Fu , Zhimeng Guo , Zhiwei Zhang , Teng Xiao , Suhang Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) excel on relational data by passing messages over node features and structure, but they can amplify training data biases, propagating discriminatory attributes and structural imbalances into unfair outcomes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Chuxun Liu , Debo Cheng , Qingfeng Chen , Jiangzhang Gan , Jiuyong Li , Lin Liu

With growing emphasis on privacy regulations, machine unlearning has become increasingly critical in real-world applications such as social networks and recommender systems, many of which are naturally represented as graphs. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Ziheng Chen , Jiali Cheng , Hadi Amiri , Kaushiki Nag , Lu Lin , Sijia Liu , Xiangguo Sun , Gabriele Tolomei

For graph classification tasks, many traditional kernel methods focus on measuring the similarity between graphs. These methods have achieved great success on resolving graph isomorphism problems. However, in some classification problems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Jianming Huang , Hiroyuki Kasai

Recommender systems have become prosperous nowadays, designed to predict users' potential interests in items by learning embeddings. Recent developments of the Graph Neural Networks~(GNNs) also provide recommender systems with powerful…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Zhiwei Liu , Liangwei Yang , Ziwei Fan , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

Fair clustering has gained increasing attention in recent years, especially in applications involving socially sensitive attributes. However, existing fair clustering methods often lack interpretability, limiting their applicability in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Mudi Jiang , Jiahui Zhou , Xinying Liu , Zengyou He , Zhikui Chen

In this paper, we introduce a novel unsupervised, graph-based filter feature selection technique which exploits the power of topologically constrained network representations. We model dependency structures among features using a family of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Antonio Briola , Tomaso Aste

In machine learning, graph embedding algorithms seek low-dimensional representations of the input network data, thereby allowing for downstream tasks on compressed encodings. Recently, within the framework of network renormalization,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-29 Riccardo Milocco , Fabian Jansen , Diego Garlaschelli

In this paper, we introduce a graph matching method that can account for constraints of arbitrary order, with arbitrary potential functions. Unlike previous decomposition approaches that rely on the graph structures, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 D. Khuê Lê-Huu , Nikos Paragios

Learning representations of nodes has been a crucial area of the graph machine learning research area. A well-defined node embedding model should reflect both node features and the graph structure in the final embedding. In the case of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Kamil Tagowski , Piotr Bielak , Jakub Binkowski , Tomasz Kajdanowicz

Predictive coding is a message-passing framework initially developed to model information processing in the brain, and now also topic of research in machine learning due to some interesting properties. One of such properties is the natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Billy Byiringiro , Tommaso Salvatori , Thomas Lukasiewicz