让删节点时更公平,防止敏感信息被暴露。
FairGU: Fairness-aware Graph Unlearning in Social Networks
- 引入公平性感知模块,保护敏感属性不被放大或泄露。
- 在多个真实数据集上,准确率和公平性均优于现有方法。
- 适合关注隐私与公平性的社交网络系统开发者使用。
图去学习已成为支持可持续、隐私保护型社交网络的关键机制,使模型能够消除删除节点的影响,从而更好地保护用户信息。然而我们发现,现有图去学习技术对敏感属性的保护不足,常导致算法公平性下降,相较于传统图学习方法表现更差。为此,我们提出FairGU,一种公平性感知的图去学习框架,在去学习过程中同时保障性能与公平性。FairGU集成专门的公平性感知模块与有效的数据保护策略,确保在节点移除时敏感属性不会被无意放大或结构暴露。在多个真实世界数据集上的大量实验表明,FairGU在准确率和公平性指标上均持续优于最先进的图去学习方法及公平性增强的图学习基线。研究揭示了当前去学习实践中被忽视的公平性风险,并确立FairGU作为下一代社会可持续网络系统中稳健且公平的解决方案。代码已开源:https://github.com/LuoRenqiang/FairGU。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Graph unlearning has emerged as a critical mechanism for supporting sustainable and privacy-preserving social networks, enabling models to remove the influence of deleted nodes and thereby better safeguard user information. However, we observe that existing graph unlearning techniques insufficiently protect sensitive attributes, often leading to degraded algorithmic fairness compared with traditional graph learning methods. To address this gap, we introduce FairGU, a fairness-aware graph unlearning framework designed to preserve both utility and fairness during the unlearning process. FairGU integrates a dedicated fairness-aware module with effective data protection strategies, ensuring that sensitive attributes are neither inadvertently amplified nor structurally exposed when nodes are removed. Through extensive experiments on multiple real-world datasets, we demonstrate that FairGU consistently outperforms state-of-the-art graph unlearning methods and fairness-enhanced graph learning baselines in terms of both accuracy and fairness metrics. Our findings highlight a previously overlooked risk in current unlearning practices and establish FairGU as a robust and equitable solution for the next generation of socially sustainable networked systems. The codes are available at https://github.com/LuoRenqiang/FairGU.
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