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It is now well understood that machine learning models, trained on data without due care, often exhibit unfair and discriminatory behavior against certain populations. Traditional algorithmic fairness research has mainly focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Rashidul Islam , Shimei Pan , James R. Foulds

Decision making is a process that is extremely prone to different biases. In this paper we consider learning fair representations that aim at removing nuisance (sensitive) information from the decision process. For this purpose, we propose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-04 Philip Botros , Jakub M. Tomczak

Graph learning plays a central role in many data mining and machine learning tasks, such as manifold learning, data representation and analysis, dimensionality reduction, clustering, and visualization. In this work, we propose a highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yongyu Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in modeling graph-structured data. However, recent works show that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks which can fool the GNN model to make desired predictions of the attacker.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Enyan Dai , Limeng Cui , Zhengyang Wang , Xianfeng Tang , Yinghan Wang , Monica Cheng , Bing Yin , Suhang Wang

We propose a new GAN-based unsupervised model for disentangled representation learning. The new model is discovered in an attempt to utilize the Information Bottleneck (IB) framework to the optimization of GAN, thereby named IB-GAN. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Insu Jeon , Wonkwang Lee , Myeongjang Pyeon , Gunhee Kim

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has become an increasingly important task across various domains. With the rapid development of graph neural networks (GNNs), GAD methods have achieved significant performance improvements. However, fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Shouju Wang , Yuchen Song , Sheng'en Li , Dongmian Zou

In this paper, we propose a novel method, IB-RAR, which uses Information Bottleneck (IB) to strengthen adversarial robustness for both adversarial training and non-adversarial-trained methods. We first use the IB theory to build…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Xiaoyun Xu , Guilherme Perin , Stjepan Picek

Algorithmic fairness is becoming increasingly important in data mining and machine learning. Among others, a foundational notation is group fairness. The vast majority of the existing works on group fairness, with a few exceptions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Jian Kang , Tiankai Xie , Xintao Wu , Ross Maciejewski , Hanghang Tong

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the leading paradigm for solving graph analytical problems in various real-world applications. Nevertheless, GNNs could potentially render biased predictions towards certain demographic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yushun Dong , Song Wang , Jing Ma , Ninghao Liu , Jundong Li

We address the question of characterizing and finding optimal representations for supervised learning. Traditionally, this question has been tackled using the Information Bottleneck, which compresses the inputs while retaining information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Yann Dubois , Douwe Kiela , David J. Schwab , Ramakrishna Vedantam

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

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

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

Training machine learning models with the only accuracy as a final goal may promote prejudices and discriminatory behaviors embedded in the data. One solution is to learn latent representations that fulfill specific fairness metrics.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Patrik Joslin Kenfack , Adil Mehmood Khan , Rasheed Hussain , S. M. Ahsan Kazmi

Adversarial learning methods have been proposed for a wide range of applications, but the training of adversarial models can be notoriously unstable. Effectively balancing the performance of the generator and discriminator is critical,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Xue Bin Peng , Angjoo Kanazawa , Sam Toyer , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

Graph representation learning aims to encode all nodes of a graph into low-dimensional vectors that will serve as input of many compute vision tasks. However, most existing algorithms ignore the existence of inherent data distribution and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Shuai Zheng , Zhenfeng Zhu , Xingxing Zhang , Zhizhe Liu , Jian Cheng , Yao Zhao

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs), widely recognized for their potential to generate high-quality samples, tend to go unnoticed in representation learning. While recent progress has highlighted their potential for capturing visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Dingshuo Chen , Shuchen Xue , Liuji Chen , Yingheng Wang , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Zhi-Ming Ma , Liang Wang

The biases and discrimination of machine learning algorithms have attracted significant attention, leading to the development of various algorithms tailored to specific contexts. However, these solutions often fall short of addressing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yinghui Huang , Zihao Tang , Xiangyu Chang

We present a data-driven framework for learning fair universal representations (FUR) that guarantee statistical fairness for any learning task that may not be known a priori. Our framework leverages recent advances in adversarial learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Peter Kairouz , Jiachun Liao , Chong Huang , Maunil Vyas , Monica Welfert , Lalitha Sankar

Presence of bias (in datasets or tasks) is inarguably one of the most critical challenges in machine learning applications that has alluded to pivotal debates in recent years. Such challenges range from spurious associations between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Ehsan Adeli , Qingyu Zhao , Adolf Pfefferbaum , Edith V. Sullivan , Li Fei-Fei , Juan Carlos Niebles , Kilian M. Pohl