arXiv:2601.16496cs.LGcs.CY2026-01

提升联邦图学习公平性,让弱势节点不被忽视

BoostFGL: Boosting Fairness in Federated Graph Learning

  • 通过客户端节点与拓扑增强,突出被忽略的少数节点
  • 服务器端按难易度和可靠性聚合更新,保护关键信息
  • 在9个数据集上显著提升公平性,整体性能不降

联邦图学习(FGL)允许多方在不暴露原始数据的前提下协同训练图神经网络。尽管现有方法通常具备高平均准确率,但我们发现这掩盖了对弱势节点群体的严重性能下降。从公平性视角看,这种差异源于三个相互关联的根源:标签偏向多数模式、消息传播中的拓扑混淆,以及硬客户端更新被聚合稀释。为此,我们提出BoostFGL——一种面向公平性的增强式联邦图学习框架。该框架包含三项协同机制:(1)客户端节点增强,重塑本地训练信号以突出系统性被忽视的节点;(2)客户端拓扑增强,重新分配传播权重至可靠但未被充分利用的结构,并抑制误导性邻域;(3)服务器端模型增强,基于难度与可靠性感知的聚合策略,保留来自难样本客户端的有效更新,同时稳定全局模型。在9个数据集上的大量实验表明,BoostFGL显著提升公平性,整体F1提升8.43%,且保持与强基线相当的整体性能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Federated graph learning (FGL) enables collaborative training of graph neural networks (GNNs) across decentralized subgraphs without exposing raw data. While existing FGL methods often achieve high overall accuracy, we show that this average performance can conceal severe degradation on disadvantaged node groups. From a fairness perspective, these disparities arise systematically from three coupled sources: label skew toward majority patterns, topology confounding in message propagation, and aggregation dilution of updates from hard clients. To address this, we propose \textbf{BoostFGL}, a boosting-style framework for fairness-aware FGL. BoostFGL introduces three coordinated mechanisms: \ding{182} \emph{Client-side node boosting}, which reshapes local training signals to emphasize systematically under-served nodes; \ding{183} \emph{Client-side topology boosting}, which reallocates propagation emphasis toward reliable yet underused structures and attenuates misleading neighborhoods; and \ding{184} \emph{Server-side model boosting}, which performs difficulty- and reliability-aware aggregation to preserve informative updates from hard clients while stabilizing the global model. Extensive experiments on 9 datasets show that BoostFGL delivers substantial fairness gains, improving Overall-F1 by 8.43\%, while preserving competitive overall performance against strong FGL baselines.

联邦学习图神经网络公平性增强学习

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