Summary of Fairgt: a Fairness-aware Graph Transformer, by Renqiang Luo et al.
FairGT: A Fairness-aware Graph Transformer
by Renqiang Luo, Huafei Huang, Shuo Yu, Xiuzhen Zhang, Feng Xia
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Apr 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 The proposed FairGT (Fairness-aware Graph Transformer) aims to address biased outcomes against sensitive subgroups in Graph Transformers by incorporating fairness considerations. It uses a structural feature selection strategy and multi-hop node feature integration method to ensure independence of sensitive features, making it suitable for downstream tasks. The paper proves the theoretical effectiveness of the fair structural topology encoding approach and demonstrates its superiority over existing graph transformers, graph neural networks, and state-of-the-art fairness-aware graph learning approaches through empirical evaluations on five real-world datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary FairGT is a new way to make Graph Transformers fairer. It’s like a special filter that helps the model ignore certain information that might be unfair or biased. The paper shows how FairGT works and why it’s better than other ways of making graph models fair. It also tested FairGT on five real-world datasets and showed that it does a good job. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Feature selection » Transformer
