Robustness in Fairness against Edge-level Perturbations in GNN-based Recommendation
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| author | Boratto, Ludovico Fabbri, Francesco Fenu, Gianni Marras, Mirko Medda, Giacomo |
| author_facet | Boratto, Ludovico Fabbri, Francesco Fenu, Gianni Marras, Mirko Medda, Giacomo |
| contents | Efforts in the recommendation community are shifting from the sole emphasis on utility to considering beyond-utility factors, such as fairness and robustness. Robustness of recommendation models is typically linked to their ability to maintain the original utility when subjected to attacks. Limited research has explored the robustness of a recommendation model in terms of fairness, e.g., the parity in performance across groups, under attack scenarios. In this paper, we aim to assess the robustness of graph-based recommender systems concerning fairness, when exposed to attacks based on edge-level perturbations. To this end, we considered four different fairness operationalizations, including both consumer and provider perspectives. Experiments on three datasets shed light on the impact of perturbations on the targeted fairness notion, uncovering key shortcomings in existing evaluation protocols for robustness. As an example, we observed perturbations affect consumer fairness on a higher extent than provider fairness, with alarming unfairness for the former. Source code: https://github.com/jackmedda/CPFairRobust |
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| spellingShingle | Robustness in Fairness against Edge-level Perturbations in GNN-based Recommendation Boratto, Ludovico Fabbri, Francesco Fenu, Gianni Marras, Mirko Medda, Giacomo Information Retrieval Efforts in the recommendation community are shifting from the sole emphasis on utility to considering beyond-utility factors, such as fairness and robustness. Robustness of recommendation models is typically linked to their ability to maintain the original utility when subjected to attacks. Limited research has explored the robustness of a recommendation model in terms of fairness, e.g., the parity in performance across groups, under attack scenarios. In this paper, we aim to assess the robustness of graph-based recommender systems concerning fairness, when exposed to attacks based on edge-level perturbations. To this end, we considered four different fairness operationalizations, including both consumer and provider perspectives. Experiments on three datasets shed light on the impact of perturbations on the targeted fairness notion, uncovering key shortcomings in existing evaluation protocols for robustness. As an example, we observed perturbations affect consumer fairness on a higher extent than provider fairness, with alarming unfairness for the former. Source code: https://github.com/jackmedda/CPFairRobust |
| title | Robustness in Fairness against Edge-level Perturbations in GNN-based Recommendation |
| topic | Information Retrieval |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13823 |