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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

Graph neural networks (GNNs), has been widely used for supervised learning tasks in graphs reaching state-of-the-art results. However, little work was dedicated to creating unbiased GNNs, i.e., where the classification is uncorrelated with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Uriel Singer , Kira Radinsky

Small subgraphs (graphlets) are important features to describe fundamental units of a large network. The calculation of the subgraph frequency distributions has a wide application in multiple domains including biology and engineering.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Zhongren Chen , Xinyue Xu , Shengyi Jiang , Hao Wang , Lu Mi

Despite the remarkable success of graph neural networks (GNNs) in modeling graph-structured data, like other machine learning models, GNNs are also susceptible to making biased predictions based on sensitive attributes, such as race and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Cheng Yang , Jixi Liu , Yunhe Yan , Chuan Shi

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

Fairness in Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNs) becomes a more and more important concern as GCNs are adopted in many crucial applications. Societal biases against sensitive groups may exist in many real world graphs. GCNs trained on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Zicun Cong , Shi Baoxu , Shan Li , Jaewon Yang , Qi He , Jian Pei

Node representation learning by using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has been widely explored. However, in recent years, compelling evidence has revealed that GNN-based node representation learning can be substantially deteriorated by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jun Zhuang , Mohammad Al Hasan

We present Graph Neural Diffusion (GRAND) that approaches deep learning on graphs as a continuous diffusion process and treats Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) as discretisations of an underlying PDE. In our model, the layer structure and…

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as the mainstream paradigm for graph representation learning due to their effective message aggregation. However, this advantage also amplifies biases inherent in graph topology, raising fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhenqiang Ye , Jinjie Lu , Tianlong Gu , Fengrui Hao , Xuemin Wang

Deep learning methods for graphs achieve remarkable performance on many node-level and graph-level prediction tasks. However, despite the proliferation of the methods and their success, prevailing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) neglect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Emily Alsentzer , Samuel G. Finlayson , Michelle M. Li , Marinka Zitnik

With the rapid growth of graph-structured data in critical domains, unsupervised graph-level anomaly detection (UGAD) has become a pivotal task. UGAD seeks to identify entire graphs that deviate from normal behavioral patterns. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Qingfeng Chen , Haojin Zeng , Jingyi Jie , Shichao Zhang , Debo Cheng

We study the problem of generating graph signals from unknown distributions defined over given graphs, relevant to domains such as recommender systems or sensor networks. Our approach builds on generative diffusion models, which are well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sergio Rozada , Vimal K. B. , Andrea Cavallo , Antonio G. Marques , Hadi Jamali-Rad , Elvin Isufi

Graph neural network (GNN) based methods have saturated the field of recommender systems. The gains of these systems have been significant, showing the advantages of interpreting data through a network structure. However, despite the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Rebecca Salganik , Fernando Diaz , Golnoosh Farnadi

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 exhibited exceptional efficacy in a diverse array of applications. However, the sheer size of large-scale graphs presents a significant challenge to real-time inference with GNNs. Although existing Scalable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Xinyi Gao , Wentao Zhang , Junliang Yu , Yingxia Shao , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Bin Cui , Hongzhi Yin

Fairness has been a significant challenge in graph neural networks (GNNs) since degree biases often result in un-equal prediction performance among nodes with varying degrees. Existing GNN models focus on prediction accuracy, frequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Jiaxin Liu , Xiaoqian Jiang , Xiang Li , Bohan Zhang , Jing Zhang

Graph Neural Network (GNN), with the main idea of encoding graph structure information of graphs by propagation and aggregation, has developed rapidly. It achieved excellent performance in representation learning of multiple types of graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yushan Zhu , Wen Zhang , Yajing Xu , Zhen Yao , Mingyang Chen , Huajun Chen

Deep Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are essential for capturing complex dependencies in graph-structured data. However, scaling GNNs to depth remains challenging, as stacking layers leads to representation collapse and diminishing sensitivity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Rémi Bourgerie , Šarūnas Girdzijauskas , Viktoria Fodor

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) is a pioneering model for graph-based semi-supervised learning. However, GCN does not perform well on sparsely-labeled graphs. Its two-layer version cannot effectively propagate the label information to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Wei Ye , Zexi Huang , Yunqi Hong , Ambuj Singh

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) traditionally employ a message-passing mechanism that resembles diffusion over undirected graphs, which often leads to homogenization of node features and reduced discriminative power in tasks such as node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Seong Ho Pahng , Sahand Hormoz