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Summary of Toward Fair Graph Neural Networks Via Dual-teacher Knowledge Distillation, by Chengyu Li and Debo Cheng and Guixian Zhang and Yi Li and Shichao Zhang


Toward Fair Graph Neural Networks Via Dual-Teacher Knowledge Distillation

by Chengyu Li, Debo Cheng, Guixian Zhang, Yi Li, Shichao Zhang

First submitted to arxiv on: 30 Nov 2024

Categories

  • Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
  • Secondary: Computers and Society (cs.CY); Machine Learning (stat.ML)

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Medium GrooveSquid.com (original content) Medium Difficulty Summary
A novel approach to balancing fairness and utility in graph neural networks (GNNs) is proposed, addressing the issue of biased predictions caused by sensitive attributes. The method, FairDTD, uses a dual-teacher distillation framework, incorporating causal graph models and node-specific temperature modules to facilitate information transfer. This strategy leverages full data while optimizing fair representation learning for GNNs, achieving optimal fairness and utility.
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A new way to make sure computer programs don’t favor certain groups is introduced. It’s called FairDTD, which uses a special kind of teaching process that helps the program learn to be fair without sacrificing its ability to work well. This approach can help make decisions more objective, which is important for things like hiring or lending. The method was tested on different datasets and showed it could achieve both fairness and good performance.

Keywords

» Artificial intelligence  » Distillation  » Representation learning  » Temperature