Effective Individual Fairest Community Search over Heterogeneous Information Networks

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Autori principali: Zhao, Taige, Li, Jianxin, Cui, Ningning, Luo, Wei
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author Zhao, Taige
Li, Jianxin
Cui, Ningning
Luo, Wei
author_facet Zhao, Taige
Li, Jianxin
Cui, Ningning
Luo, Wei
contents Community search over heterogeneous information networks has been applied to wide domains, such as activity organization and team formation. From these scenarios, the members of a group with the same treatment often have different levels of activity and workloads, which causes unfairness in the treatment between active members and inactive members (called individual unfairness). However, existing works do not pay attention to individual fairness and do not sufficiently consider the rich semantics of HINs (e.g., high-order structure), which disables complex queries. To fill the gap, we formally define the issue of individual fairest community search over HINs (denoted as IFCS), which aims to find a set of vertices from the HIN that own the same type, close relationships, and small difference of activity level and has been demonstrated to be NP-hard. To do this, we first develop an exploration-based filter that reduces the search space of the community effectively. Further, to avoid repeating computation and prune unfair communities in advance, we propose a message-based scheme and a lower bound-based scheme. At last, we conduct extensive experiments on four real-world datasets to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed algorithms, which achieve at least X3 times faster than the baseline solution.
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spellingShingle Effective Individual Fairest Community Search over Heterogeneous Information Networks
Zhao, Taige
Li, Jianxin
Cui, Ningning
Luo, Wei
Databases
Data Structures and Algorithms
Social and Information Networks
Community search over heterogeneous information networks has been applied to wide domains, such as activity organization and team formation. From these scenarios, the members of a group with the same treatment often have different levels of activity and workloads, which causes unfairness in the treatment between active members and inactive members (called individual unfairness). However, existing works do not pay attention to individual fairness and do not sufficiently consider the rich semantics of HINs (e.g., high-order structure), which disables complex queries. To fill the gap, we formally define the issue of individual fairest community search over HINs (denoted as IFCS), which aims to find a set of vertices from the HIN that own the same type, close relationships, and small difference of activity level and has been demonstrated to be NP-hard. To do this, we first develop an exploration-based filter that reduces the search space of the community effectively. Further, to avoid repeating computation and prune unfair communities in advance, we propose a message-based scheme and a lower bound-based scheme. At last, we conduct extensive experiments on four real-world datasets to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed algorithms, which achieve at least X3 times faster than the baseline solution.
title Effective Individual Fairest Community Search over Heterogeneous Information Networks
topic Databases
Data Structures and Algorithms
Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12107