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Collaborative filtering (CF) is one of the most successful and fundamental techniques in recommendation systems. In recent years, Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based CF models, such as NGCF [31], LightGCN [10] and GTN [9] have achieved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Hao-Ming Fu , Patrick Poirson , Kwot Sin Lee , Chen Wang

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

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

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

Homophily principle, i.e., nodes with the same labels are more likely to be connected, has been believed to be the main reason for the performance superiority of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) over Neural Networks on node classification…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Sitao Luan , Chenqing Hua , Minkai Xu , Qincheng Lu , Jiaqi Zhu , Xiao-Wen Chang , Jie Fu , Jure Leskovec , Doina Precup

Graph neural networks (GNNs) can learn effective node representations that significantly improve link prediction accuracy. However, most GNN-based link prediction algorithms are incompetent to predict weak ties connecting different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Weiwei Gu , Linbi Lv , Gang Lu , Ruiqi Li

Graph neural networks (GNN) have recently emerged as a vehicle for applying deep network architectures to graph and relational data. However, given the increasing size of industrial datasets, in many practical situations the message passing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Qingru Zhang , David Wipf , Quan Gan , Le Song

Though algorithms promise many benefits including efficiency, objectivity and accuracy, they may also introduce or amplify biases. Here we study two well-known algorithms, namely PageRank and Who-to-Follow (WTF), and show to what extent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Lisette Espín-Noboa , Claudia Wagner , Markus Strohmaier , Fariba Karimi

Despite enormous successful applications of graph neural networks (GNNs), theoretical understanding of their generalization ability, especially for node-level tasks where data are not independent and identically-distributed (IID), has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jiaqi Ma , Junwei Deng , Qiaozhu Mei

Being able to recommend links between users in online social networks is important for users to connect with like-minded individuals as well as for the platforms themselves and third parties leveraging social media information to grow their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Mustafa Toprak , Chiara Boldrini , Andrea Passarella , Marco Conti

This paper explores the ability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in learning various forms of information for link prediction, alongside a brief review of existing link prediction methods. Our analysis reveals that GNNs cannot effectively…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shuming Liang , Yu Ding , Zhidong Li , Bin Liang , Siqi Zhang , Yang Wang , Fang Chen

Heterogeneous molecular entities and their interactions, commonly depicted as a network, are crucial for advancing our systems-level understanding of biology. With recent advancements in high-throughput data generation and a significant…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-18 Kishan KC , Rui Li , Paribesh Regmi , Anne R. Haake

The application of graph neural networks (GNNs) to the domain of electrical power grids has high potential impact on smart grid monitoring. Even though there is a natural correspondence of power flow to message-passing in GNNs, their…

A common observation in the Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) literature is that stacking GCN layers may or may not result in better performance on tasks like node classification and edge prediction. We have found empirically that a graph's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Shalima Binta Manir , Tim Oates

The rise of graph representation learning as the primary solution for many different network science tasks led to a surge of interest in the fairness of this family of methods. Link prediction, in particular, has a substantial social…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Indro Spinelli , Riccardo Bianchini , Simone Scardapane

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) extend basic Neural Networks (NNs) by additionally making use of graph structure based on the relational inductive bias (edge bias), rather than treating the nodes as collections of independent and identically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Sitao Luan , Chenqing Hua , Qincheng Lu , Jiaqi Zhu , Xiao-Wen Chang , Doina Precup

Despite remarkable success in diverse web-based applications, Graph Neural Networks(GNNs) inherit and further exacerbate historical discrimination and social stereotypes, which critically hinder their deployments in high-stake domains such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ying Song , Balaji Palanisamy

In this work, we have proposed an approach for improving the GCN for predicting ratings in social networks. Our model is expanded from the standard model with several layers of transformer architecture. The main focus of the paper is on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Thi Linh Hoang , Tuan Dung Pham , Viet Cuong Ta

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