arXiv:2505.09702cs.LG2025-05被引 5

提出公平图遗忘方法,消除数据删除带来的偏见。

Enabling Group Fairness in Graph Unlearning via Bi-level Debiasing

  • 分片训练+双层去偏,兼顾隐私与公平性
  • 删除用户数据后模型预测偏差显著降低
  • 适合注重公平性的图学习应用

图遗忘是保护用户隐私的关键技术,通过消除用户数据对图模型的影响。现有方法主要关注保持模型性能,但忽略了数据删除后不同敏感群体间预测分布的变化。我们发现,图模型在遗忘过程中会放大偏见,导致删除后预测结果与敏感属性高度相关。为此,我们提出公平图遗忘方法FGU:将图划分为子图,对各子图进行分片训练和遗忘,再通过重训练实现局部公平;随后通过全局对齐最小化整体偏差。实验表明,FGU在保障隐私和准确率的同时,显著提升公平性,并对多种遗忘请求具有鲁棒性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Graph unlearning is a crucial approach for protecting user privacy by erasing the influence of user data on trained graph models. Recent developments in graph unlearning methods have primarily focused on maintaining model prediction performance while removing user information. However, we have observed that when user information is deleted from the model, the prediction distribution across different sensitive groups often changes. Furthermore, graph models are shown to be prone to amplifying biases, making the study of fairness in graph unlearning particularly important. This raises the question: Does graph unlearning actually introduce bias? Our findings indicate that the predictions of post-unlearning models become highly correlated with sensitive attributes, confirming the introduction of bias in the graph unlearning process. To address this issue, we propose a fair graph unlearning method, FGU. To guarantee privacy, FGU trains shard models on partitioned subgraphs, unlearns the requested data from the corresponding subgraphs, and retrains the shard models on the modified subgraphs. To ensure fairness, FGU employs a bi-level debiasing process: it first enables shard-level fairness by incorporating a fairness regularizer in the shard model retraining, and then achieves global-level fairness by aligning all shard models to minimize global disparity. Our experiments demonstrate that FGU achieves superior fairness while maintaining privacy and accuracy. Additionally, FGU is robust to diverse unlearning requests, ensuring fairness and utility performance across various data distributions.

图学习公平性隐私保护

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