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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated exceptional efficacy in relational learning tasks, including node classification and link prediction. However, their application raises significant fairness concerns, as GNNs can perpetuate and…

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Fairness in Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNs) becomes a more and more important concern as GCNs are adopted in many crucial applications. Societal biases against sensitive groups may exist in many real world graphs. GCNs trained on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Zicun Cong , Shi Baoxu , Shan Li , Jaewon Yang , Qi He , Jian Pei

Graph neural networks have shown great ability in representation (GNNs) learning on graphs, facilitating various tasks. Despite their great performance in modeling graphs, recent works show that GNNs tend to inherit and amplify the bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Zhimeng Guo , Jialiang Li , Teng Xiao , Yao Ma , Suhang Wang

Fair machine learning aims to mitigate the biases of model predictions against certain subpopulations regarding sensitive attributes such as race and gender. Among the many existing fairness notions, counterfactual fairness measures the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Jing Ma , Ruocheng Guo , Mengting Wan , Longqi Yang , Aidong Zhang , Jundong Li

Fairness-aware graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained a surge of attention as they can reduce the bias of predictions on any demographic group (e.g., female) in graph-based applications. Although these methods greatly improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Binchi Zhang , Yushun Dong , Chen Chen , Yada Zhu , Minnan Luo , Jundong Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable success in various graph-based learning tasks. However, recent studies have raised concerns about fairness and privacy issues in GNNs, highlighting the potential for biased or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Bartlomiej Surma , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Group fairness for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which emphasizes algorithmic decisions neither favoring nor harming certain groups defined by sensitive attributes (e.g., race and gender), has gained considerable attention. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yuchang Zhu , Jintang Li , Zibin Zheng , Liang Chen

There has been significant progress in improving the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs) through enhancements in graph data, model architecture design, and training strategies. For fairness in graphs, recent studies achieve fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Zhimeng Jiang , Xiaotian Han , Chao Fan , Zirui Liu , Na Zou , Ali Mostafavi , Xia Hu

Graph-structured data is ubiquitous in today's connected world, driving extensive research in graph analysis. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown great success in this field, leading to growing interest in developing fair GNNs for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Xuemin Wang , Tianlong Gu , Xuguang Bao , Liang Chang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have attracted considerable attention due to their diverse applications. However, the scarcity and quality limitations of graph data present challenges to their training process in practical settings. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Hanyang Yuan , Jiarong Xu , Renhong Huang , Mingli Song , Chunping Wang , Yang Yang

Graph neural networks (GNNs), has been widely used for supervised learning tasks in graphs reaching state-of-the-art results. However, little work was dedicated to creating unbiased GNNs, i.e., where the classification is uncorrelated with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Uriel Singer , Kira Radinsky

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as the mainstream paradigm for graph representation learning due to their effective message aggregation. However, this advantage also amplifies biases inherent in graph topology, raising fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhenqiang Ye , Jinjie Lu , Tianlong Gu , Fengrui Hao , Xuemin Wang

Given the growing concerns about fairness in machine learning and the impressive performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on graph data learning, algorithmic fairness in GNNs has attracted significant attention. While many existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Paiheng Xu , Yuhang Zhou , Bang An , Wei Ai , Furong Huang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained significant attraction due to their expansive real-world applications. To build trustworthy GNNs, two aspects - fairness and privacy - have emerged as critical considerations. Previous studies have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 He Zhang , Xingliang Yuan , Shirui Pan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in node classification tasks over relational data, yet their effectiveness often depends on the availability of complete node features. In many real-world scenarios, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Etzion Harari , Moshe Unger

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for analyzing and learning from complex data structured as graphs, demonstrating remarkable effectiveness in various applications, such as social network analysis, recommendation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Duna Zhan , Dongliang Guo , Pengsheng Ji , Sheng Li

Covariance-based data processing is widespread across signal processing and machine learning applications due to its ability to model data interconnectivities and dependencies. However, harmful biases in the data may become encoded in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Andrea Cavallo , Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra , Elvin Isufi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have made rapid developments in the recent years. Due to their great ability in modeling graph-structured data, GNNs are vastly used in various applications, including high-stakes scenarios such as financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Enyan Dai , Tianxiang Zhao , Huaisheng Zhu , Junjie Xu , Zhimeng Guo , Hui Liu , Jiliang Tang , Suhang Wang

Conventional graph neural networks (GNNs) are often confronted with fairness issues that may stem from their input, including node attributes and neighbors surrounding a node. While several recent approaches have been proposed to eliminate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zemin Liu , Trung-Kien Nguyen , Yuan Fang

Driven by the powerful representation ability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), plentiful GNN models have been widely deployed in many real-world applications. Nevertheless, due to distribution disparities between different demographic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Zhixun Li , Yushun Dong , Qiang Liu , Jeffrey Xu Yu