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Homophily principle, \ie{} nodes with the same labels or similar attributes are more likely to be connected, has been commonly believed to be the main reason for the superiority of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) over traditional Neural…

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven to be useful for many different practical applications. However, many existing GNN models have implicitly assumed homophily among the nodes connected in the graph, and therefore have largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Jiong Zhu , Ryan A. Rossi , Anup Rao , Tung Mai , Nedim Lipka , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Danai Koutra

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successful in modeling graph-structured data. However, similar to other machine learning models, GNNs can exhibit bias in predictions based on attributes like race and gender. Moreover, bias in GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Zengyi Wo , Chang Liu , Yumeng Wang , Minglai Shao , Wenjun Wang

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Soyoung Park , Sungsu Lim

This paper presents a novel graph-based deep learning model for tasks involving relations between two nodes (edge-centric tasks), where the focus lies on predicting relationships and interactions between pairs of nodes rather than node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Eugenio Borzone , Leandro Di Persia , Matias Gerard

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) learn low dimensional representations of nodes by aggregating information from their neighborhood in graphs. However, traditional GNNs suffer from two fundamental shortcomings due to their local ($l$-hop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Kashob Kumar Roy , Amit Roy , A K M Mahbubur Rahman , M Ashraful Amin , Amin Ahsan Ali

In the last decade or so, we have witnessed deep learning reinvigorating the machine learning field. It has solved many problems in the domains of computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, and various other tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Lilapati Waikhom , Ripon Patgiri

Recently popularized graph neural networks achieve the state-of-the-art accuracy on a number of standard benchmark datasets for graph-based semi-supervised learning, improving significantly over existing approaches. These architectures…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-13 Kiran K. Thekumparampil , Chong Wang , Sewoong Oh , Li-Jia Li

Deep Neural Networks have shown tremendous success in the area of object recognition, image classification and natural language processing. However, designing optimal Neural Network architectures that can learn and output arbitrary graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Mital Kinderkhedia

We investigate graph neural networks on graphs with heterophily. Some existing methods amplify a node's neighborhood with multi-hop neighbors to include more nodes with homophily. However, it is a significant challenge to set personalized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Xiang Li , Renyu Zhu , Yao Cheng , Caihua Shan , Siqiang Luo , Dongsheng Li , Weining Qian

Are Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) fair? In many real world graphs, the formation of edges is related to certain node attributes (e.g. gender, community, reputation). In this case, standard GNNs using these edges will be biased by this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 John Palowitch , Bryan Perozzi

In recent years, using a self-supervised learning framework to learn the general characteristics of graphs has been considered a promising paradigm for graph representation learning. The core of self-supervised learning strategies for graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Jiawei Zhu , Mei Hong , Ronghua Du , Haifeng 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

Learning discriminative node representations benefits various downstream tasks in graph analysis such as community detection and node classification. Existing graph representation learning methods (e.g., based on random walk and contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Xiaotian Han , Zhimeng Jiang , Ninghao Liu , Qingquan Song , Jundong Li , Xia Hu

The problem of unsupervised learning node embeddings in graphs is one of the important directions in modern network science. In this work we propose a novel framework, which is aimed to find embeddings by \textit{discriminating…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-24 Stanislav Tsepa , Maxim Panov

Mining graph data has become a popular research topic in computer science and has been widely studied in both academia and industry given the increasing amount of network data in the recent years. However, the huge amount of network data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Wenwu Zhu , Xin Wang , Peng Cui

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

As science advances, the academic community has published millions of research papers. Researchers devote time and effort to search relevant manuscripts when writing a paper or simply to keep up with current research. In this paper, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Haofeng Jia , Erik Saule

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the leading paradigm for solving graph analytical problems in various real-world applications. Nevertheless, GNNs could potentially render biased predictions towards certain demographic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yushun Dong , Song Wang , Jing Ma , Ninghao Liu , Jundong Li

Machine learning and data mining algorithms have been increasingly used recently to support decision-making systems in many areas of high societal importance such as healthcare, education, or security. While being very efficient in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Charlotte Laclau , Ievgen Redko , Manvi Choudhary , Christine Largeron