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Recent developments in recommendation have harnessed the collaborative power of graph neural networks (GNNs) in learning users' preferences from user-item networks. Despite emerging regulations addressing fairness of automated systems,…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have led to state-of-the-art performance on a variety of machine learning tasks such as recommendation, node classification and link prediction. Graph neural network models generate node embeddings by merging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Yunpeng Weng , Xu Chen , Liang Chen , Wei Liu

The biases in artificial intelligence (AI) models can lead to automated decision-making processes that discriminate against groups and/or individuals based on sensitive properties such as gender and race. While there are many studies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Roya Nasiri

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

Link prediction is a fundamental task in dynamic graph learning (DGL), inherently shaped by the topology of the DG. Recent advancements in dynamic graph neural networks (DGNN), primarily by modeling the relationships among nodes via a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Ling Wang , Minglian Han

Link prediction -- a task of distinguishing actual hidden edges from random unconnected node pairs -- is one of the quintessential tasks in graph machine learning. Despite being widely accepted as a universal benchmark and a downstream task…

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Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) plays pivotal roles in many real-world applications. Despite the successes of GCN deployment, GCN often exhibits performance disparity with respect to node degrees, resulting in worse predictive accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Jian Kang , Yan Zhu , Yinglong Xia , Jiebo Luo , Hanghang Tong

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for learning from graph-structured data but often produce biased predictions with respect to sensitive attributes. Fairness-aware GNNs have been actively studied for mitigating biased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yuya Sasaki

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown great prowess in learning representations suitable for numerous graph-based machine learning tasks. When applied to semi-supervised node classification, GNNs are widely believed to work well due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Yao Ma , Xiaorui Liu , Neil Shah , Jiliang Tang

Legal systems heavily rely on cross-citations of legal norms as well as previous court decisions. Practitioners, novices and legal AI systems need access to these relevant data to inform appraisals and judgments. We propose a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Lorenz Wendlinger , Simon Alexander Nonn , Abdullah Al Zubaer , Michael Granitzer

Deep neural networks are notoriously miscalibrated, i.e., their outputs do not reflect the true probability of the event we aim to predict. While networks for tabular or image data are usually overconfident, recent works have shown that…

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To enjoy more social network services, users nowadays are usually involved in multiple online sites at the same time. Aligned social networks provide more information to alleviate the problem of data insufficiency. In this paper, we target…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Yizhu Jiao , Yun Xiong , Jiawei Zhang , Yangyong Zhu

Prior work on node classification has shown that Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can learn representations that transfer across graphs, when underlying graph properties are shared. For a fixed graph, one would then expect GNNs trained for link…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Kieran Maguire , Srinandan Dasmahapatra

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often struggle to generalize when graphs exhibit both homophily (same-class connections) and heterophily (different-class connections). Specifically, GNNs tend to underperform for nodes with local homophily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Donald Loveland , Danai Koutra

Recent years have witnessed fast developments of graph neural networks (GNNs) that have benefited myriad graph analytic tasks and applications. Most GNNs rely on the homophily assumption that nodes belonging to the same class are more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xin Zheng , Yi Wang , Yixin Liu , Ming Li , Miao Zhang , Di Jin , Philip S. Yu , Shirui Pan

Link prediction in structured-data is an important problem for many applications, especially for recommendation systems. Existing methods focus on how to learn the node representation based on graph-based structure. High-dimensional sparse…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yifei Zhao , Mingdong Ou , Rongzhi Zhang , Meng Li

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are one of the most popular architectures that are used to solve classification problems accompanied by graphical information. We present a rigorous theoretical understanding of the effects of graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Aseem Baranwal , Kimon Fountoulakis , Aukosh Jagannath

Link prediction is a fundamental task in graph machine learning with applications, ranging from social recommendation to knowledge graph completion. Fairness in this setting is critical, as biased predictions can exacerbate societal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 João Mattos , Debolina Halder Lina , Arlei Silva

Graph-structured data are pervasive in the real-world such as social networks, molecular graphs and transaction networks. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in representation learning on graphs, facilitating various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zhimeng Guo , Teng Xiao , Zongyu Wu , Charu Aggarwal , Hui Liu , Suhang Wang

Link prediction in graph data uses various algorithms and Graph Nerual Network (GNN) models to predict potential relationships between graph nodes. These techniques have found widespread use in numerous real-world applications, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Mingchen Li , Di Zhuang , Keyu Chen , Dumindu Samaraweera , Morris Chang