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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

With the widespread use of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for representation learning from network data, the fairness of GNN models has raised great attention lately. Fair GNNs aim to ensure that node representations can be accurately…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Guixian Zhang , Guan Yuan , Debo Cheng , Lin Liu , Jiuyong Li , Shichao Zhang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) excel on relational data by passing messages over node features and structure, but they can amplify training data biases, propagating discriminatory attributes and structural imbalances into unfair outcomes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Chuxun Liu , Debo Cheng , Qingfeng Chen , Jiangzhang Gan , Jiuyong Li , Lin Liu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the leading approach for addressing graph analytical problems in various real-world scenarios. However, GNNs may produce biased predictions against certain demographic subgroups due to node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yonas Sium , Qi Li

The design of Graph Transformers (GTs) generally neglects considerations for fairness, resulting in biased outcomes against certain sensitive subgroups. Since GTs encode graph information without relying on message-passing mechanisms,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Renqiang Luo , Huafei Huang , Shuo Yu , Xiuzhen Zhang , Feng Xia

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely used for various types of graph data processing and analytical tasks in different domains. Training GNNs over centralized graph data can be infeasible due to privacy concerns and regulatory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Nan Cui , Xiuling Wang , Wendy Hui Wang , Violet Chen , Yue Ning

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

Node representation learning has demonstrated its efficacy for various applications on graphs, which leads to increasing attention towards the area. However, fairness is a largely under-explored territory within the field, which may lead to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-24 O. Deniz Kose , Yanning Shen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results in many relevant tasks where decisions might disproportionately impact specific communities. However, existing work on fair GNNs often assumes that either sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Debolina Halder Lina , Arlei Silva

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse applications. However, due to the biases in the graph structures, graph neural networks face significant challenges in fairness. Although the original user graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jiahua Lu , Huaxiao Liu , Shuotong Bai , Junjie Xu , Renqiang Luo , Enyan Dai

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

Link prediction is a crucial task in network analysis, but it has been shown to be prone to biased predictions, particularly when links are unfairly predicted between nodes from different sensitive groups. In this paper, we study the fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Yezi Liu , Hanning Chen , Mohsen Imani

Unsupervised Representation Learning on graphs is gaining traction due to the increasing abundance of unlabelled network data and the compactness, richness, and usefulness of the representations generated. In this context, the need to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Arvindh Arun , Aakash Aanegola , Amul Agrawal , Ramasuri Narayanam , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

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

Fair graph learning plays a pivotal role in numerous practical applications. Recently, many fair graph learning methods have been proposed; however, their evaluation often relies on poorly constructed semi-synthetic datasets or substandard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xiaowei Qian , Zhimeng Guo , Jialiang Li , Haitao Mao , Bingheng Li , Suhang Wang , Yao Ma

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

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

Graph condensation (GC) has become a vital strategy for scaling Graph Neural Networks by compressing massive datasets into small, synthetic node sets. While current GC methods effectively maintain predictive accuracy, they are primarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yihan Gao , Chenxi Huang , Wen Shi , Ke Sun , Ziqi Xu , Xikun Zhang , Mingliang Hou , Renqiang Luo

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable performance on graph-structured data. However, GNNs may inherit prejudice from the training data and make discriminatory predictions based on sensitive attributes, such as gender and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Yibo Li , Xiao Wang , Yujie Xing , Shaohua Fan , Ruijia Wang , Yaoqi Liu , Chuan Shi

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Zhimeng Guo , Jialiang Li , Teng Xiao , Yao Ma , Suhang Wang