arXiv:2606.00700cs.LGcs.AI2026-06中稿 · ICML

解决动态图中推荐系统公平性随策略更新而漂移的问题

COPF: An Online Framework for Deployment-Stable Counterfactual Fairness in Evolving Graphs

论文配图:COPF: An Online Framework for Deployment-Stable Counterfactual Fairness in Evolving Graphs
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  • 基于曝光反事实构建群体机会差距度量,避免反馈偏差
  • 通过显式探索和倾向性得分,实现公平性可估计与可控
  • 在保持排名效果的前提下,显著降低最差情况下的公平性波动

在线动态图上的链接推荐具有表现性:系统选择展示哪些候选链接,会改变实际形成的链接关系,并影响后续观测到的反馈。因此,基于日志数据估算的公平性可能失真,且在部署后策略更新时会发生漂移。本文提出COPF(Counterfactual Online Performative Fairness),一个面向在线链接推荐的决策层公平性监控与控制框架。COPF (i) 定义了基于曝光(被展示与未被展示)反事实的群体级机会差距;(ii) 通过显式探索及记录每个候选链接被展示的概率(倾向性得分),使该差距可估计;(iii) 利用配置化的审计器家族与图感知双重稳健(GA-DR)估计器,通过残差结果不可区分性(Residual-OI)进行公平性审计与控制。我们证明了一个带噪声的转移定理,表明在时间混合和局部干扰有界条件下,对GA-DR残差的残差-OI约束可推出暴露反事实群体差距的边界。我们实例化了一个在线多校准审计器与原始-对偶控制器。在两个TGB数据流及一个受控的二分图合成数据流上的实验表明,COPF在对排序效用影响较小的情况下,显著降低了暴露反事实群体差异的最大峰值。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Online link recommendation on evolving graphs is performative: by choosing which candidate links to show users, the system changes which links form and what feedback it later observes. Consequently, fairness estimates from logged outcomes can be misleading and may drift after deployment when the recommendation policy is updated. We introduce COPF (Counterfactual Online Performative Fairness), a decision-layer framework for deployment-stable fairness monitoring and control in online link recommendation. COPF (i) defines group-level opportunity gaps over exposure (shown vs. not shown) counterfactuals, (ii) makes them estimable by explicit exploration and by logging the probability (propensity) that each candidate is shown, and (iii) audits and controls fairness using residual outcome indistinguishability (OI) over a configurable auditor family with graph-aware doubly robust (GA-DR) estimators. We provide a noisy transfer theorem showing that Residual-OI on estimated GA-DR residuals implies bounds on exposure-counterfactual group gaps under temporal mixing and bounded local interference, and we instantiate an online multicalibration auditor together with a primal-dual controller. Experiments on two TGB streams and a controlled synthetic bipartite stream show that COPF reduces worst-case spikes in exposure-counterfactual group disparities with modest impact on ranking utility. Our code is available at https://github.com/lsnnnnnnnn/COPF.

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