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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

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

We estimate fair graphs from graph-stationary nodal observations such that connections are not biased with respect to sensitive attributes. Edges in real-world graphs often exhibit preferences for connecting certain pairs of groups. Biased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Madeline Navarro , Andrei Buciulea , Samuel Rey , Antonio G. Marques , Santiago Segarra

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

Graphs can facilitate modeling various complex systems such as gene networks and power grids, as well as analyzing the underlying relations within them. Learning over graphs has recently attracted increasing attention, particularly graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 O. Deniz Kose , Yanning Shen

Due to the growing concern about unsavory behaviors of machine learning models toward certain demographic groups, the notion of 'fairness' has recently drawn much attention from the community, thereby motivating the study of fairness in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Minh Phu Vuong , Young-Ju Lee , Iván Ojeda-Ruiz , Chul-Ho Lee

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

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) 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

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

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

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have become increasingly popular in recommendation systems. However, recent studies have shown that GCN-based models will cause sensitive information to disseminate widely in the graph structure,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Tongxin Xu , Wenqiang Liu , Chenzhong Bin , Cihan Xiao , Zhixin Zeng , Tianlong Gu

In medical image diagnosis, fairness has become increasingly crucial. Without bias mitigation, deploying unfair AI would harm the interests of the underprivileged population and potentially tear society apart. Recent research addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Ching-Hao Chiu , Yu-Jen Chen , Yawen Wu , Yiyu Shi , Tsung-Yi Ho

A central goal of algorithmic fairness is to reduce bias in automated decision making. An unavoidable tension exists between accuracy gains obtained by using sensitive information (e.g., gender or ethnic group) as part of a statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-03 Luca Oneto , Michele Donini , Amon Elders , Massimiliano Pontil

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have proven to be an effective tool for enhancing the performance of recommender systems. However, these systems often suffer from popularity bias, leading to an unfair advantage for frequently interacted items,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Nemat Gholinejad , Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

We study the task of node classification for graph neural networks (GNNs) and establish a connection between group fairness, as measured by statistical parity and equal opportunity, and local assortativity, i.e., the tendency of linked…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Donald Loveland , Jiong Zhu , Mark Heimann , Ben Fish , Michael T. Schaub , Danai Koutra

Fairness holds a pivotal role in the realm of machine learning, particularly when it comes to addressing groups categorised by protected attributes, e.g., gender, race. Prevailing algorithms in fair learning predominantly hinge on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Quan Zhou , Jakub Marecek

Recently there has been a significant interest in learning disentangled representations, as they promise increased interpretability, generalization to unseen scenarios and faster learning on downstream tasks. In this paper, we investigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Francesco Locatello , Gabriele Abbati , Tom Rainforth , Stefan Bauer , Bernhard Schölkopf , Olivier Bachem

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

Fairness is a fundamental requirement for trustworthy and human-centered Artificial Intelligence (AI) system. However, deep neural networks (DNNs) tend to make unfair predictions when the training data are collected from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Ruichen Yao , Ziteng Cui , Xiaoxiao Li , Lin Gu