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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) 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…

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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

Graph is a flexible and effective tool to represent complex structures in practice and graph neural networks (GNNs) have been shown to be effective on various graph tasks with randomly separated training and testing data. In real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Shengyu Zhang , Kun Kuang , Jiezhong Qiu , Jin Yu , Zhou Zhao , Hongxia Yang , Zhongfei Zhang , Fei Wu

Fair machine learning aims to mitigate the biases of model predictions against certain subpopulations regarding sensitive attributes such as race and gender. Among the many existing fairness notions, counterfactual fairness measures the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Jing Ma , Ruocheng Guo , Mengting Wan , Longqi Yang , Aidong Zhang , Jundong Li

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are composed of layers consisting of graph convolutions and pointwise nonlinearities. Due to their invariance and stability properties, GNNs are provably successful at learning representations from data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Luana Ruiz , Luiz F. O. Chamon , Alejandro Ribeiro

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have made tremendous progress in the graph classification task. However, a performance gap between the training set and the test set has often been noticed. To bridge such gap, in this work we introduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yiqi Wang , Chaozhuo Li , Wei Jin , Rui Li , Jianan Zhao , Jiliang Tang , Xing Xie

Fairness-aware graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained a surge of attention as they can reduce the bias of predictions on any demographic group (e.g., female) in graph-based applications. Although these methods greatly improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Binchi Zhang , Yushun Dong , Chen Chen , Yada Zhu , Minnan Luo , Jundong Li

There have been tremendous efforts over the past decades dedicated to the generation of realistic graphs in a variety of domains, ranging from social networks to computer networks, from gene regulatory networks to online transaction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Lecheng Zheng , Dawei Zhou , Hanghang Tong , Jiejun Xu , Yada Zhu , Jingrui He

Graph neural networks (GNNs) build on the success of deep learning models by extending them for use in graph spaces. Transfer learning has proven extremely successful for traditional deep learning problems: resulting in faster training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Nishai Kooverjee , Steven James , Terence van Zyl

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Zhixun Li , Yushun Dong , Qiang Liu , Jeffrey Xu Yu

Federated Graph Learning (FGL) enables multiple clients to jointly train powerful graph learning models, e.g., Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), without sharing their local graph data for graph-related downstream tasks, such as graph property…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Xingbo Fu , Zihan Chen , Yinhan He , Song Wang , Binchi Zhang , Chen Chen , Jundong Li

Learning fair graph representations for downstream applications is becoming increasingly important, but existing work has mostly focused on improving fairness at the global level by either modifying the graph structure or objective function…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-26 April Chen , Ryan Rossi , Nedim Lipka , Jane Hoffswell , Gromit Chan , Shunan Guo , Eunyee Koh , Sungchul Kim , Nesreen K. Ahmed

Fairness-aware Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often face a challenging trade-off, where prioritizing fairness may require compromising utility. In this work, we re-examine fairness through the lens of spectral graph theory, aiming to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Renqiang Luo , Huafei Huang , Shuo Yu , Zhuoyang Han , Estrid He , Xiuzhen Zhang , Feng Xia

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

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

Conventional graph neural networks (GNNs) are often confronted with fairness issues that may stem from their input, including node attributes and neighbors surrounding a node. While several recent approaches have been proposed to eliminate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zemin Liu , Trung-Kien Nguyen , Yuan Fang

As powerful tools for representation learning on graphs, graph neural networks (GNNs) have facilitated various applications from drug discovery to recommender systems. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of GNNs is immensely challenged by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Wei Jin , Tong Zhao , Jiayuan Ding , Yozen Liu , Jiliang Tang , Neil Shah

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are being increasingly used in many high-stakes tasks, and as a result, there is growing attention on their fairness recently. GNNs have been shown to be unfair as they tend to make discriminatory decisions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Yuchang Zhu , Jintang Li , Liang Chen , Zibin Zheng

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown satisfying performance in various graph analytical problems. Hence, they have become the \emph{de facto} solution in a variety of decision-making scenarios. However, GNNs could yield biased results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Yushun Dong , Song Wang , Yu Wang , Tyler Derr , Jundong Li