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Ensuring fairness in Graph Neural Networks is fundamental to promoting trustworthy and socially responsible machine learning systems. In response, numerous fair graph learning methods have been proposed in recent years. However, most of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Zichong Wang , Zhipeng Yin , Liping Yang , Jun Zhuang , Rui Yu , Qingzhao Kong , Wenbin Zhang

As the data-driven decision process becomes dominating for industrial applications, fairness-aware machine learning arouses great attention in various areas. This work proposes fairness penalties learned by neural networks with a simple…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Jinwon Sohn , Qifan Song , Guang Lin

Model fairness is an essential element for Trustworthy AI. While many techniques for model fairness have been proposed, most of them assume that the training and deployment data distributions are identical, which is often not true in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yuji Roh , Kangwook Lee , Steven Euijong Whang , Changho Suh

Fairness-aware Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often face a challenging trade-off, where prioritizing fairness may require compromising utility. In this work, we re-examine fairness through the lens of spectral graph theory, aiming to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Renqiang Luo , Huafei Huang , Shuo Yu , Zhuoyang Han , Estrid He , Xiuzhen Zhang , Feng Xia

This paper introduces a framework for estimating fair optimal predictions using machine learning where the notion of fairness can be quantified using path-specific causal effects. We use a recently developed approach based on Lagrange…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Razieh Nabi , David Benkeser

In this paper, we take a first step towards answering the question of how to design fair machine learning algorithms that are robust to adversarial attacks. Using a minimax framework, we aim to design an adversarially robust fair regression…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Yulu Jin , Lifeng Lai

With the widespread use of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for representation learning from network data, the fairness of GNN models has raised great attention lately. Fair GNNs aim to ensure that node representations can be accurately…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Guixian Zhang , Guan Yuan , Debo Cheng , Lin Liu , Jiuyong Li , Shichao Zhang

Real-world applications of machine learning tools in high-stakes domains are often regulated to be fair, in the sense that the predicted target should satisfy some quantitative notion of parity with respect to a protected attribute.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Han Zhao

Fairness has been a significant challenge in graph neural networks (GNNs) since degree biases often result in un-equal prediction performance among nodes with varying degrees. Existing GNN models focus on prediction accuracy, frequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Jiaxin Liu , Xiaoqian Jiang , Xiang Li , Bohan Zhang , Jing Zhang

Algorithmic decision making systems are ubiquitous across a wide variety of online as well as offline services. These systems rely on complex learning methods and vast amounts of data to optimize the service functionality, satisfaction of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-27 Muhammad Bilal Zafar , Isabel Valera , Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , Krishna P. Gummadi

To mitigate the bias exhibited by machine learning models, fairness criteria can be integrated into the training process to ensure fair treatment across all demographics, but it often comes at the expense of model performance. Understanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ruicheng Xian , Lang Yin , Han Zhao

The goal of fairness in classification is to learn a classifier that does not discriminate against groups of individuals based on sensitive attributes, such as race and gender. One approach to designing fair algorithms is to use relaxations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Kirtan Padh , Diego Antognini , Emma Lejal Glaude , Boi Faltings , Claudiu Musat

Recent studies have highlighted fairness issues in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), where they produce discriminatory predictions against specific protected groups categorized by sensitive attributes such as race and age. While various efforts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yuchang Zhu , Jintang Li , Yatao Bian , Zibin Zheng , Liang Chen

There has been a prevalence of applying AI software in both high-stakes public-sector and industrial contexts. However, the lack of transparency has raised concerns about whether these data-informed AI software decisions secure fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Xiaoyin Xi , Zhe Yu

Algorithmic decision making process now affects many aspects of our lives. Standard tools for machine learning, such as classification and regression, are subject to the bias in data, and thus direct application of such off-the-shelf tools…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-16 Junpei Komiyama , Hajime Shimao

In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in tasks such as node classification, link prediction, and graph representation learning. However, they remain susceptible to biases that can arise not only from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Mahdi Tavassoli Kejani , Fadi Dornaika , Charlotte Laclau , Jean-Michel Loubes

The main objective of fair statistical modeling and machine learning is to minimize or eliminate biases that may arise from the data or the model itself, ensuring that predictions and decisions are not unjustly influenced by sensitive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-03 Xueyu Zhou , Chun Yin IP , Jian Huang

A review of the main fairness definitions and fair learning methodologies proposed in the literature over the last years is presented from a mathematical point of view. Following our independence-based approach, we consider how to build…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-29 Eustasio del Barrio , Paula Gordaliza , Jean-Michel Loubes

Machine unlearning poses the challenge of ``how to eliminate the influence of specific data from a pretrained model'' in regard to privacy concerns. While prior research on approximated unlearning has demonstrated accuracy and efficiency in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Khoa Tran , Simon S. Woo

The persistent challenge of bias in machine learning models necessitates robust solutions to ensure parity and equal treatment across diverse groups, particularly in classification tasks. Current methods for mitigating bias often result in…