Disentangling, Amplifying, and Debiasing: Learning Disentangled Representations for Fair Graph Neural Networks

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Autores principales: Lee, Yeon-Chang, Shin, Hojung, Kim, Sang-Wook
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author Lee, Yeon-Chang
Shin, Hojung
Kim, Sang-Wook
author_facet Lee, Yeon-Chang
Shin, Hojung
Kim, Sang-Wook
contents Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become essential tools for graph representation learning in various domains, such as social media and healthcare. However, they often suffer from fairness issues due to inherent biases in node attributes and graph structure, leading to unfair predictions. To address these challenges, we propose a novel GNN framework, DAB-GNN, that Disentangles, Amplifies, and deBiases attribute, structure, and potential biases in the GNN mechanism. DAB-GNN employs a disentanglement and amplification module that isolates and amplifies each type of bias through specialized disentanglers, followed by a debiasing module that minimizes the distance between subgroup distributions. Extensive experiments on five datasets demonstrate that DAB-GNN significantly outperforms ten state-of-the-art competitors in terms of achieving an optimal balance between accuracy and fairness. The codebase of DAB-GNN is available at https://github.com/Bigdasgit/DAB-GNN
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spellingShingle Disentangling, Amplifying, and Debiasing: Learning Disentangled Representations for Fair Graph Neural Networks
Lee, Yeon-Chang
Shin, Hojung
Kim, Sang-Wook
Machine Learning
Social and Information Networks
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become essential tools for graph representation learning in various domains, such as social media and healthcare. However, they often suffer from fairness issues due to inherent biases in node attributes and graph structure, leading to unfair predictions. To address these challenges, we propose a novel GNN framework, DAB-GNN, that Disentangles, Amplifies, and deBiases attribute, structure, and potential biases in the GNN mechanism. DAB-GNN employs a disentanglement and amplification module that isolates and amplifies each type of bias through specialized disentanglers, followed by a debiasing module that minimizes the distance between subgroup distributions. Extensive experiments on five datasets demonstrate that DAB-GNN significantly outperforms ten state-of-the-art competitors in terms of achieving an optimal balance between accuracy and fairness. The codebase of DAB-GNN is available at https://github.com/Bigdasgit/DAB-GNN
title Disentangling, Amplifying, and Debiasing: Learning Disentangled Representations for Fair Graph Neural Networks
topic Machine Learning
Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.12875