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The first provably efficient algorithm for learning graph neural networks (GNNs) with one hidden layer for node information convolution is provided in this paper. Two types of GNNs are investigated, depending on whether labels are attached…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Qunwei Li , Shaofeng Zou , Wenliang Zhong

Machine unlearning is critical for enforcing data deletion rights like the "right to be forgotten." As a decentralized paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) also requires unlearning, but realistic implementations face two major challenges.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 ZiHeng Huang , Di Wu , Jun Bai , Jiale Zhang , Sicong Cao , Ji Zhang , Yingjie Hu

Despite the remarkable capabilities demonstrated by Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in graph-related tasks, recent research has revealed the fairness vulnerabilities in GNNs when facing malicious adversarial attacks. However, all existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Zihan Luo , Hong Huang , Yongkang Zhou , Jiping Zhang , Nuo Chen , Hai Jin

Machine Unlearning is an emerging field that addresses data privacy issues by enabling the removal of private or irrelevant data from the Machine Learning process. Challenges related to privacy and model efficiency arise from the use of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Thanveer Shaik , Xiaohui Tao , Lin Li , Haoran Xie , Taotao Cai , Xiaofeng Zhu , Qing Li

Graph unlearning has emerged as a pivotal research area for ensuring privacy protection, given the widespread adoption of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in applications involving sensitive user data. Among existing studies, certified graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Lu Yi , Zhewei Wei

Graph Neural networks (GNNs) have been applied in many scenarios due to the superior performance of graph learning. However, fairness is always ignored when designing GNNs. As a consequence, biased information in training data can easily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 YanMing Hu , TianChi Liao , JiaLong Chen , Jing Bian , ZiBin Zheng , Chuan Chen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used and deployed for graph-based prediction tasks. However, as good as GNNs are for learning graph data, they also come with the risk of privacy leakage. For instance, an attacker can run carefully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Mir Imtiaz Mostafiz , Imtiaz Karim , Elisa Bertino

Graph neural networks can be effectively applied to find solutions for many real-world problems across widely diverse fields. The success of graph neural networks is linked to the message-passing mechanism on the graph, however, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Yan Pang , Chao Liu

Graph diffusion models have gained significant attention in graph generation tasks, but they often inherit and amplify topology biases from sensitive attributes (e.g. gender, age, region), leading to unfair synthetic graphs. Existing fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wendi Wang , Jiaxi Yang , Yongkang Du , Lu Lin

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a prominent graph learning model in various graph-based tasks over the years. Nevertheless, due to the vulnerabilities of GNNs, it has been empirically shown that malicious attackers could easily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yushun Dong , Binchi Zhang , Hanghang Tong , Jundong Li

Anomalous users detection in social network is an imperative task for security problems. Motivated by the great power of Graph Neural Networks(GNNs), many current researches adopt GNN-based detectors to reveal the anomalous users. However,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yangyang Li , Yipeng Ji , Shaoning Li , Shulong He , Yinhao Cao , Xiong Li , Jun Shi , Yangchao Yang , Yifeng Liu

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

Graphs are mathematical tools that can be used to represent complex real-world interconnected systems, such as financial markets and social networks. Hence, machine learning (ML) over graphs has attracted significant attention recently.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 O. Deniz Kose , Yanning Shen , Gonzalo Mateos

We address the problem of group fairness in classification, where the objective is to learn models that do not unjustly discriminate against subgroups of the population. Most existing approaches are limited to simple binary tasks or involve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Gaurav Maheshwari , Michaël Perrot

Graph filters that transform prior node values to posterior scores via edge propagation often support graph mining tasks affecting humans, such as recommendation and ranking. Thus, it is important to make them fair in terms of satisfying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Emmanouil Krasanakis , Symeon Papadopoulos

We propose an interpretable graph neural network framework to denoise single or multiple noisy graph signals. The proposed graph unrolling networks expand algorithm unrolling to the graph domain and provide an interpretation of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Siheng Chen , Yonina C. Eldar , Lingxiao Zhao

Node representation learning has demonstrated its efficacy for various applications on graphs, which leads to increasing attention towards the area. However, fairness is a largely under-explored territory within the field, which may lead to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-24 O. Deniz Kose , Yanning Shen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly used in real-world applications (e.g. facial recognition). This has resulted in concerns about the fairness of decisions made by these models. Various notions and measures of fairness have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Vedant Nanda , Samuel Dooley , Sahil Singla , Soheil Feizi , John P. Dickerson

Graph-structured data are pervasive in the real-world such as social networks, molecular graphs and transaction networks. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in representation learning on graphs, facilitating various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zhimeng Guo , Teng Xiao , Zongyu Wu , Charu Aggarwal , Hui Liu , Suhang Wang

Fairness in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models is becoming critically important, especially as decisions made by these systems impact diverse groups. In education, a vital sector for all countries, the widespread…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nga Pham , Minh Kha Do , Tran Vu Dai , Pham Ngoc Hung , Anh Nguyen-Duc