KDD2025
Towards Controllable Hybrid Fairness in Graph Neural Networks
Zihan Luo, Hong Huang, Jianxun Lian, Xiran Song, Hai Jin
Abstract
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable capabilities in mining graph-structured data. However, conventional GNNs often encounter various fairness issues, such as predictions with prejudices when dealing with nodes with different sensitive attributes like genders or races, or significantly different prediction performance when facing nodes with different degrees. Existing studies mainly focus on addressing one specific fairness issue, neglecting the fact that a GNN model may face multiple unfairness simultaneously in reality, and addressing only one specific fairness may still leave the GNNs in an unfair status.