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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 modeling graph structured data. However, similar to other machine learning models, GNNs may make predictions biased on protected sensitive attributes, e.g., skin color and gender.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Enyan Dai , Suhang Wang

Counterfactual learning is emerging as an important paradigm, rooted in causality, which promises to alleviate common issues of graph neural networks (GNNs), such as fairness and interpretability. However, as in many real-world application…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Dazhuo Qiu , Jinwen Chen , Arijit Khan , Yan Zhao , Francesco Bonchi

Adversarial learning and the robustness of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are topics of widespread interest in the machine learning community, as documented by the number of adversarial attacks and defenses designed for these purposes. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tran Gia Bao Ngo , Zulfikar Alom , Federico Errica , Murat Kantarcioglu , Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora

Graph Neural Networks have shown excellent performance on semi-supervised classification tasks. However, they assume access to a graph that may not be often available in practice. In the absence of any graph, constructing k-Nearest Neighbor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Vijay Lingam , Arun Iyer , Rahul Ragesh

As the representations output by Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are increasingly employed in real-world applications, it becomes important to ensure that these representations are fair and stable. In this work, we establish a key connection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Chirag Agarwal , Himabindu Lakkaraju , Marinka Zitnik

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

Graph Neural Network (GNN) is an emerging technique for graph-based learning tasks such as node classification. In this work, we reveal the vulnerability of GNN to the imbalance of node labels. Traditional solutions for imbalanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Xiaohe Li , Lijie Wen , Yawen Deng , Fuli Feng , Xuming Hu , Lei Wang , Zide Fan

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

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

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

Unsupervised graph representation learning aims to learn low-dimensional node embeddings without supervision while preserving graph topological structures and node attributive features. Previous graph neural networks (GNN) require a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Yanqiao Zhu , Yichen Xu , Feng Yu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have made significant advances on several fundamental inference tasks. As a result, there is a surge of interest in using these models for making potentially important decisions in high-regret applications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Mengshu Sun , Caiwen Ding , Bhavya Kailkhura , Xue Lin

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

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for learning representations from structured data. Despite their growing popularity and success across various applications, GNNs encounter several challenges that limit their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yassine Abbahaddou

Fraud detection problems are usually formulated as a machine learning problem on a graph. Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown solid performance on fraud detection. The successes of most previous methods heavily rely on rich…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Chen Wang , Yingtong Dou , Min Chen , Jia Chen , Zhiwei Liu , Philip S. Yu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown great power in learning node representations on graphs. However, they may inherit historical prejudices from training data, leading to discriminatory bias in predictions. Although some work has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Yu Wang , Yuying Zhao , Yushun Dong , Huiyuan Chen , Jundong Li , Tyler Derr

As machine learning becomes more widely adopted across domains, it is critical that researchers and ML engineers think about the inherent biases in the data that may be perpetuated by the model. Recently, many studies have shown that such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Sean Current , Yuntian He , Saket Gurukar , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Graph-structured data is ubiquitous in today's connected world, driving extensive research in graph analysis. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown great success in this field, leading to growing interest in developing fair GNNs for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Xuemin Wang , Tianlong Gu , Xuguang Bao , Liang Chang