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Despite recent advances in achieving fair representations and predictions through regularization, adversarial debiasing, and contrastive learning in graph neural networks (GNNs), the working mechanism (i.e., message passing) behind GNNs…

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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…

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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…

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Individual fairness, which requires that similar individuals should be treated similarly by algorithmic systems, has become a central principle in fair machine learning. Individual fairness has garnered traction in graph representation…

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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…

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Network data can be conveniently modeled as a graph signal, where data values are assigned to the nodes of a graph describing the underlying network topology. Successful learning from network data requires methods that effectively exploit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-22 Samuel Pfrommer , Fernando Gama , Alejandro Ribeiro

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for semi-supervised node classification tasks. However, recent studies have revealed various biases in GNNs stemming from both node features and graph topology. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Haoyu Han , Xiaorui Liu , Feng Shi , MohamadAli Torkamani , Charu C. Aggarwal , Jiliang Tang

Graph link prediction (LP) plays a critical role in socially impactful applications, such as job recommendation and friendship formation. Ensuring fairness in this task is thus essential. While many fairness-aware methods manipulate graph…

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In recent years, graph-based machine learning techniques, such as reinforcement learning and graph neural networks, have garnered significant attention. While some recent studies have started to explore the relationship between the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yash Arya , Sang Hoon Lee

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

Neural networks are often represented as graphs of connections between neurons. However, despite their wide use, there is currently little understanding of the relationship between the graph structure of the neural network and its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Jiaxuan You , Jure Leskovec , Kaiming He , Saining Xie

Efforts in the recommendation community are shifting from the sole emphasis on utility to considering beyond-utility factors, such as fairness and robustness. Robustness of recommendation models is typically linked to their ability to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Ludovico Boratto , Francesco Fabbri , Gianni Fenu , Mirko Marras , Giacomo Medda

Ensuring fairness in Graph Neural Networks is fundamental to promoting trustworthy and socially responsible machine learning systems. In response, numerous fair graph learning methods have been proposed in recent years. However, most of…

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Graph neural network (GNN) based methods have saturated the field of recommender systems. The gains of these systems have been significant, showing the advantages of interpreting data through a network structure. However, despite the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Rebecca Salganik , Fernando Diaz , Golnoosh Farnadi

Recent studies show that Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attack, i.e., an imperceptible structure perturbation can fool GNNs to make wrong predictions. Some researches explore specific properties of clean graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Guangqian Yang , Yibing Zhan , Jinlong Li , Baosheng Yu , Liu Liu , Fengxiang He

Graph neural networks can be effectively applied to find solutions for many real-world problems across widely diverse fields. The success of graph neural networks is linked to the message-passing mechanism on the graph, however, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Yan Pang , Chao Liu

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

Despite much research, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) still do not display the favorable scaling properties of other deep neural networks such as Convolutional Neural Networks and Transformers. Previous work has identified issues such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ameen Ali , Hakan Cevikalp , Lior Wolf

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool to learn from graph-structured data. A paramount example of such data is the brain, which operates as a network, from the micro-scale of neurons, to the macro-scale of regions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Ahmed ElGazzar , Rajat Thomas , Guido van Wingen

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…

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