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Although significant effort has been applied to fact-checking, the prevalence of fake news over social media, which has profound impact on justice, public trust and our society, remains a serious problem. In this work, we focus on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Yi Han , Shanika Karunasekera , Christopher Leckie

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown superior performance in analyzing attributed networks in various web-based applications such as social recommendation and web search. Nevertheless, in high-stake decision-making scenarios such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Yushun Dong , Ninghao Liu , Brian Jalaian , Jundong Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance across diverse graph-based tasks by leveraging message passing to capture complex node relationships. However, on large-scale real-world graphs, GNNs face two major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xiang Li , Jianpeng Qi , Haobing Liu , Yuan Cao , Guoqing Chao , Zhongying Zhao , Junyu Dong , Xinwang Liu , Yanwei Yu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) achieve strong performance on node classification tasks but remain difficult to interpret, particularly with respect to which input features drive their predictions. Existing global GNN explainers operate at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Rishi Raj Sahoo , Subhankar Mishra

In this paper, we propose FairNN a neural network that performs joint feature representation and classification for fairness-aware learning. Our approach optimizes a multi-objective loss function in which (a) learns a fair representation by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Tongxin Hu , Vasileios Iosifidis , Wentong Liao , Hang Zhang , Michael YingYang , Eirini Ntoutsi , Bodo Rosenhahn

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in various applications, but their performance can be sensitive to specific data properties of the graph datasets they operate on. Current literature on understanding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Ting Wei Li , Qiaozhu Mei , Jiaqi Ma

Identifying vulnerable code is a precautionary measure to counter software security breaches. Tedious expert effort has been spent to build static analyzers, yet insecure patterns are barely fully enumerated. This work explores a deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Yufan Zhuang , Sahil Suneja , Veronika Thost , Giacomo Domeniconi , Alessandro Morari , Jim Laredo

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often perform better for high-degree nodes than low-degree nodes on node classification tasks. This degree bias can reinforce social marginalization by, e.g., privileging celebrities and other high-degree actors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Arjun Subramonian , Jian Kang , Yizhou Sun

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have significant advantages in handling non-Euclidean data and have been widely applied across various areas, thus receiving increasing attention in recent years. The framework of GNN models mainly includes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Shengda Zhuo , Jiwang Fang , Hongguang Lin , Yin Tang , Min Chen , Changdong Wang , Shuqiang Huang

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have shown very powerful for graph data representation and learning tasks. Existing GCNs usually conduct feature aggregation on a fixed neighborhood graph in which each node computes its representation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Bo Jiang , Beibei Wang , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a series of competent graph learning methods for diverse real-world scenarios, ranging from daily applications like recommendation systems and question answering to cutting-edge technologies such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 He Zhang , Bang Wu , Xingliang Yuan , Shirui Pan , Hanghang Tong , Jian Pei

Graph Neural Networks have become one of the indispensable tools to learn from graph-structured data, and their usefulness has been shown in wide variety of tasks. In recent years, there have been tremendous improvements in architecture…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-15 Sunil Kumar Maurya , Xin Liu , Tsuyoshi Murata

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly used in real-world applications (e.g. facial recognition). This has resulted in concerns about the fairness of decisions made by these models. Various notions and measures of fairness have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Vedant Nanda , Samuel Dooley , Sahil Singla , Soheil Feizi , John P. Dickerson

Graph federated learning enables the collaborative extraction of high-order information from distributed subgraphs while preserving the privacy of raw data. However, graph data often exhibits overlap among different clients. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zihao Zhou , Shusen Yang , Fangyuan Zhao , Xuebin Ren

The graph-based model can help to detect suspicious fraud online. Owing to the development of Graph Neural Networks~(GNNs), prior research work has proposed many GNN-based fraud detection frameworks based on either homogeneous graphs or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Zhiwei Liu , Yingtong Dou , Philip S. Yu , Yutong Deng , Hao Peng

Graph representation learning has become a ubiquitous component in many scenarios, ranging from social network analysis to energy forecasting in smart grids. In several applications, ensuring the fairness of the node (or graph)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Indro Spinelli , Simone Scardapane , Amir Hussain , Aurelio Uncini

The message-passing mechanism underlying Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is not naturally suited for heterophilic datasets, where adjacent nodes often have different labels. Most solutions to this problem remain confined to the task of node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Andrea Giuseppe Di Francesco , Francesco Caso , Maria Sofia Bucarelli , Fabrizio Silvestri

Graph diffusion models have gained significant attention in graph generation tasks, but they often inherit and amplify topology biases from sensitive attributes (e.g. gender, age, region), leading to unfair synthetic graphs. Existing fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wendi Wang , Jiaxi Yang , Yongkang Du , Lu Lin

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are shown to be successful in modeling applications with graph structures. However, training an accurate GNN model requires a large collection of labeled data and expressive features, which might be inaccessible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Ziniu Hu , Changjun Fan , Ting Chen , Kai-Wei Chang , Yizhou Sun

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a powerful tool to learn representations on graphs by iteratively aggregating features from node neighbourhoods. Many variant models have been proposed, but there is limited understanding on both how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Michael Lingzhi Li , Meng Dong , Jiawei Zhou , Alexander M. Rush