FairDgcl: Fairness-aware Recommendation with Dynamic Graph Contrastive Learning

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Auteurs principaux: Chen, Wei, Yuan, Meng, Zhang, Zhao, Xie, Ruobing, Zhuang, Fuzhen, Wang, Deqing, Liu, Rui
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author Chen, Wei
Yuan, Meng
Zhang, Zhao
Xie, Ruobing
Zhuang, Fuzhen
Wang, Deqing
Liu, Rui
author_facet Chen, Wei
Yuan, Meng
Zhang, Zhao
Xie, Ruobing
Zhuang, Fuzhen
Wang, Deqing
Liu, Rui
contents As trustworthy AI continues to advance, the fairness issue in recommendations has received increasing attention. A recommender system is considered unfair when it produces unequal outcomes for different user groups based on user-sensitive attributes (e.g., age, gender). Some researchers have proposed data augmentation-based methods aiming at alleviating user-level unfairness by altering the skewed distribution of training data among various user groups. Despite yielding promising results, they often rely on fairness-related assumptions that may not align with reality, potentially reducing the data quality and negatively affecting model effectiveness. To tackle this issue, in this paper, we study how to implement high-quality data augmentation to improve recommendation fairness. Specifically, we propose FairDgcl, a dynamic graph adversarial contrastive learning framework aiming at improving fairness in recommender system. First, FairDgcl develops an adversarial contrastive network with a view generator and a view discriminator to learn generating fair augmentation strategies in an adversarial style. Then, we propose two dynamic, learnable models to generate contrastive views within contrastive learning framework, which automatically fine-tune the augmentation strategies. Meanwhile, we theoretically show that FairDgcl can simultaneously generate enhanced representations that possess both fairness and accuracy. Lastly, comprehensive experiments conducted on four real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed FairDgcl.
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spellingShingle FairDgcl: Fairness-aware Recommendation with Dynamic Graph Contrastive Learning
Chen, Wei
Yuan, Meng
Zhang, Zhao
Xie, Ruobing
Zhuang, Fuzhen
Wang, Deqing
Liu, Rui
Artificial Intelligence
As trustworthy AI continues to advance, the fairness issue in recommendations has received increasing attention. A recommender system is considered unfair when it produces unequal outcomes for different user groups based on user-sensitive attributes (e.g., age, gender). Some researchers have proposed data augmentation-based methods aiming at alleviating user-level unfairness by altering the skewed distribution of training data among various user groups. Despite yielding promising results, they often rely on fairness-related assumptions that may not align with reality, potentially reducing the data quality and negatively affecting model effectiveness. To tackle this issue, in this paper, we study how to implement high-quality data augmentation to improve recommendation fairness. Specifically, we propose FairDgcl, a dynamic graph adversarial contrastive learning framework aiming at improving fairness in recommender system. First, FairDgcl develops an adversarial contrastive network with a view generator and a view discriminator to learn generating fair augmentation strategies in an adversarial style. Then, we propose two dynamic, learnable models to generate contrastive views within contrastive learning framework, which automatically fine-tune the augmentation strategies. Meanwhile, we theoretically show that FairDgcl can simultaneously generate enhanced representations that possess both fairness and accuracy. Lastly, comprehensive experiments conducted on four real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed FairDgcl.
title FairDgcl: Fairness-aware Recommendation with Dynamic Graph Contrastive Learning
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17555