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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven to excel in predictive modeling tasks where the underlying data is a graph. However, as GNNs are extensively used in human-centered applications, the issue of fairness has arisen. While edge deletion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Donald Loveland , Jiayi Pan , Aaresh Farrokh Bhathena , Yiyang Lu

Graph learning has rapidly evolved into a critical subfield of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Its development began with early graph-theoretic methods, gaining significant momentum with the advent of graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Feng Xia , Ciyuan Peng , Jing Ren , Falih Gozi Febrinanto , Renqiang Luo , Vidya Saikrishna , Shuo Yu , Xiangjie Kong

Pre-trained graph models (PGMs) aim to capture transferable inherent structural properties and apply them to different downstream tasks. Similar to pre-trained language models, PGMs also inherit biases from human society, resulting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Zhongjian Zhang , Mengmei Zhang , Yue Yu , Cheng Yang , Jiawei Liu , Chuan Shi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) aim to extend deep learning techniques to graph data and have achieved significant progress in graph analysis tasks (e.g., node classification) in recent years. However, similar to other deep neural networks…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Zhihua Jin , Yong Wang , Qianwen Wang , Yao Ming , Tengfei Ma , Huamin Qu

In many important graph data processing applications the acquired information includes both node features and observations of the graph topology. Graph neural networks (GNNs) are designed to exploit both sources of evidence but they do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Eli Chien , Jianhao Peng , Pan Li , Olgica Milenkovic

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

Fairness-aware graph learning has gained increasing attention in recent years. Nevertheless, there lacks a comprehensive benchmark to evaluate and compare different fairness-aware graph learning methods, which blocks practitioners from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yushun Dong , Song Wang , Zhenyu Lei , Zaiyi Zheng , Jing Ma , Chen Chen , Jundong Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) achieve strong performance on node classification tasks but remain difficult to interpret, particularly with respect to which input features drive their predictions. Existing global GNN explainers operate at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Rishi Raj Sahoo , Subhankar Mishra

This study explores the effectiveness of graph neural networks (GNNs) for vulnerability detection in software code, utilizing a real-world dataset of Java vulnerability-fixing commits. The dataset's structure, based on the number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Ravil Mussabayev

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used deep learning models that learn meaningful representations from graph-structured data. Due to the finite nature of the underlying recurrent structure, current GNN methods may struggle to capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Fangda Gu , Heng Chang , Wenwu Zhu , Somayeh Sojoudi , Laurent El Ghaoui

We propose an adaptive node feature selection approach for graph neural networks (GNNs) that identifies and removes unnecessary features during training. The ability to measure how features contribute to model output is key for interpreting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Ali Azizpour , Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received considerable attention on graph-structured data learning for a wide variety of tasks. The well-designed propagation mechanism which has been demonstrated effective is the most fundamental part of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Meiqi Zhu , Xiao Wang , Chuan Shi , Houye Ji , Peng Cui

In this paper, we propose FairNN a neural network that performs joint feature representation and classification for fairness-aware learning. Our approach optimizes a multi-objective loss function in which (a) learns a fair representation by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Tongxin Hu , Vasileios Iosifidis , Wentong Liao , Hang Zhang , Michael YingYang , Eirini Ntoutsi , Bodo Rosenhahn

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used for graph representation learning. Despite its prevalence, GNN suffers from two drawbacks in the graph classification task, the neglect of graph-level relationships, and the generalization issue.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jiaxing Xu , Jinjie Ni , Yiping Ke

This paper explores the applications and challenges of graph neural networks (GNNs) in processing complex graph data brought about by the rapid development of the Internet. Given the heterogeneity and redundancy problems that graph data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Jianjun Wei , Yue Liu , Xin Huang , Xin Zhang , Wenyi Liu , Xu Yan

In social network, a person located at the periphery region (marginal node) is likely to be treated unfairly when compared with the persons at the center. While existing fairness works on graphs mainly focus on protecting sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xiaotian Han , Kaixiong Zhou , Ting-Hsiang Wang , Jundong Li , Fei Wang , Na Zou

Recent developments in recommendation have harnessed the collaborative power of graph neural networks (GNNs) in learning users' preferences from user-item networks. Despite emerging regulations addressing fairness of automated systems,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Ludovico Boratto , Francesco Fabbri , Gianni Fenu , Mirko Marras , Giacomo Medda

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

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

Most existing fair classifiers rely on sensitive attributes to achieve fairness. However, for many scenarios, we cannot obtain sensitive attributes due to privacy and legal issues. The lack of sensitive attributes challenges many existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Huaisheng Zhu , Enyan Dai , Hui Liu , Suhang Wang