Summary of One Fits All: Learning Fair Graph Neural Networks For Various Sensitive Attributes, by Yuchang Zhu et al.
One Fits All: Learning Fair Graph Neural Networks for Various Sensitive Attributes
by Yuchang Zhu, Jintang Li, Yatao Bian, Zibin Zheng, Liang Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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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 FairINV framework addresses the issue of fairness in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) by formulating the problem from a causal modeling perspective. The authors identify the confounding effect induced by sensitive attributes as the underlying reason for discriminatory predictions and develop an invariant learning approach to eliminate spurious correlations. This approach enables the training of fair GNNs that can accommodate various sensitive attributes within a single session, outperforming state-of-the-art fairness approaches on several real-world datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new way to make Graph Neural Networks fair by looking at the problem from a different angle. Instead of trying to fix each specific type of bias, it develops a framework that can handle many types of biases at once. This means that instead of having to retrain the model every time you want to use it for a different group of people, you only need to train it once and it will work fairly for everyone. |
