Migrate Demographic Group For Fair GNNs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04212v2
• Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 11:37:21 GMT
• Title: Migrate Demographic Group For Fair GNNs
• Authors: YanMing Hu, TianChi Liao, JiaLong Chen, Jing Bian, ZiBin Zheng, Chuan Chen,
• Abstract summary: Graph Neural networks (GNNs) have been applied in many scenarios due to the superior performance of graph learning. FairMigration is composed of two training stages. In the first stage, the GNNs are initially optimized by personalized self-supervised learning. In the second stage, the new demographic groups are frozen and supervised learning is carried out under the constraints of new demographic groups and adversarial training.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Graph Neural networks (GNNs) have been applied in many scenarios due to the superior performance of graph learning. However, fairness is always ignored when designing GNNs. As a consequence, biased information in training data can easily affect vanilla GNNs, causing biased results toward particular demographic groups (divided by sensitive attributes, such as race and age). There have been efforts to address the fairness issue. However, existing fair techniques generally divide the demographic groups by raw sensitive attributes and assume that are fixed. The biased information correlated with raw sensitive attributes will run through the training process regardless of the implemented fair techniques. It is urgent to resolve this problem for training fair GNNs. To tackle this problem, we propose a brand new framework, FairMigration, which can dynamically migrate the demographic groups instead of keeping that fixed with raw sensitive attributes. FairMigration is composed of two training stages. In the first stage, the GNNs are initially optimized by personalized self-supervised learning, and the demographic groups are adjusted dynamically. In the second stage, the new demographic groups are frozen and supervised learning is carried out under the constraints of new demographic groups and adversarial training. Extensive experiments reveal that FairMigration balances model performance and fairness well.

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