Summary of Debiasing Graph Representation Learning Based on Information Bottleneck, by Ziyi Zhang and Mingxuan Ouyang et al.
Debiasing Graph Representation Learning based on Information Bottleneck
by Ziyi Zhang, Mingxuan Ouyang, Wanyu Lin, Hao Lan, Lei Yang
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this research paper, the authors propose a new framework for fair graph representation learning called GRAFair. The existing methods in this field often neglect fairness in their decision-making processes, which can lead to discriminatory predictions. To address this issue, the authors design GRAFair based on a variational graph auto-encoder and a Conditional Fairness Bottleneck that balances utility and sensitive information. Unlike previous works that use adversarial learning, GRAFair achieves fairness in a stable manner by optimizing a tractable objective function using variational approximation. The proposed method is tested on various real-world datasets and demonstrates effectiveness in terms of fairness, utility, robustness, and stability. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary GRAFair is a new way to learn graph representations that are fair and useful for making predictions. Most current methods don’t think about fairness when they make decisions, which can lead to unfair results. The authors created GRAFair using a special kind of auto-encoder that helps balance what’s important to know with sensitive information. This approach is different from previous ones that tried to be fair but ended up being unstable or even worse. The authors tested GRAFair on real-world data and found it worked well for making predictions while also being fair. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Encoder » Objective function » Representation learning
