提出DECAF-GAD框架,让图神经网络在检测异常时更公平。
Enhancing Fairness in Autoencoders for Node-Level Graph Anomaly Detection
- 用因果模型分离敏感属性,避免偏见传播
- 在真实和合成数据上同时提升检测性能与公平性
- 适合关注模型公平性的图异常检测研究者
图异常检测(GAD)在多个领域日益重要。随着图神经网络(GNN)的快速发展,基于GNN的GAD方法性能显著提升,但其公平性问题仍被忽视。现有方法多针对节点分类任务,且常采用简单层结构,而大多数异常检测仍依赖自编码器架构。为此,本文提出DECAF-GAD框架,通过结构因果模型(SCM)将敏感属性从表征中解耦,并设计专用自编码器结构与公平性引导损失函数。在合成与真实数据集上的大量实验表明,DECAF-GAD在保持良好异常检测性能的同时,显著优于基线方法的公平性指标。代码已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has become an increasingly important task across various domains. With the rapid development of graph neural networks (GNNs), GAD methods have achieved significant performance improvements. However, fairness considerations in GAD remain largely underexplored. Indeed, GNN-based GAD models can inherit and amplify biases present in training data, potentially leading to unfair outcomes. While existing efforts have focused on developing fair GNNs, most approaches target node classification tasks, where models often rely on simple layer architectures rather than autoencoder-based structures, which are the most widely used architecturs for anomaly detection. To address fairness in autoencoder-based GAD models, we propose \textbf{D}is\textbf{E}ntangled \textbf{C}ounterfactual \textbf{A}dversarial \textbf{F}air (DECAF)-GAD, a framework that alleviates bias while preserving GAD performance. Specifically, we introduce a structural causal model (SCM) to disentangle sensitive attributes from learned representations. Based on this causal framework, we formulate a specialized autoencoder architecture along with a fairness-guided loss function. Through extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets, we demonstrate that DECAF-GAD not only achieves competitive anomaly detection performance but also significantly enhances fairness metrics compared to baseline GAD methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/Tlhey/decaf_code.
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