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Compositional Fairness Constraints for Graph Embeddings

Avishek Joey Bose, William Hamilton

Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning, Long Beach, California, PMLR 97, 2019
License: CC0 1.0

Abstract: Learning high-quality node embeddings is a key building block for machine learning models that operate on graph data, such as social networks and recommender systems. However, existing graph embedding techniques are unable to cope with fairness constraints, e.g., ensuring that the learned representations do not correlate with certain attributes, such as age or gender. Here, we introduce an adversarial framework to enforce fairness constraints on graph embeddings. Our approach is {\em compositional}---meaning that it can flexibly accommodate different combinations of fairness constraints during inference. For instance, in the context of social recommendations, our framework would allow one user to request that their recommendations are invariant to both their age and gender, while also allowing another user to request invariance to just their age. Experiments on standard knowledge graph and recommender system benchmarks highlight the utility of our proposed framework.

Submitted to arXiv on 25 May. 2019