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most citedLearning Fair Node Representations with Graph Counterfactual Fairness

77 citations · 175 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2024

Global Graph Counterfactual Explanation: A Subgraph Mapping Approach

Yinhan He, Wendy Zheng, Yaochen Zhu +5

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely deployed in various real-world applications. However, most GNNs are black-box models that lack explanations. One strategy to explain G…

cs.LG2024★ 7 cited

Causal Inference with Latent Variables: Recent Advances and Future Prospectives

Yaochen Zhu, Yinhan He, Jing Ma +3

Causality lays the foundation for the trajectory of our world. Causal inference (CI), which aims to infer intrinsic causal relations among variables of interest, has emerged as a c…

cs.LG2023

Fair Few-shot Learning with Auxiliary Sets

Song Wang, Jing Ma, Lu Cheng +1

Recently, there has been a growing interest in developing machine learning (ML) models that can promote fairness, i.e., eliminating biased predictions towards certain populations (…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

A Look into Causal Effects under Entangled Treatment in Graphs: Investigating the Impact of Contact on MRSA Infection

Jing Ma, Chen Chen, Anil Vullikanti +4

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a type of bacteria resistant to certain antibiotics, making it difficult to prevent MRSA infections. Among decades of efforts…

cs.LG2023★ 13 cited

Learning for Counterfactual Fairness from Observational Data

Jing Ma, Ruocheng Guo, Aidong Zhang +1

Fairness-aware machine learning has attracted a surge of attention in many domains, such as online advertising, personalized recommendation, and social media analysis in web applic…

cs.IR2023★ 10 cited

Path-Specific Counterfactual Fairness for Recommender Systems

Yaochen Zhu, Jing Ma, Liang Wu +3

Recommender systems (RSs) have become an indispensable part of online platforms. With the growing concerns of algorithmic fairness, RSs are not only expected to deliver high-qualit…

cs.IR2023★ 9 cited

Causal Inference in Recommender Systems: A Survey of Strategies for Bias Mitigation, Explanation, and Generalization

Yaochen Zhu, Jing Ma, Jundong Li

In the era of information overload, recommender systems (RSs) have become an indispensable part of online service platforms. Traditional RSs estimate user interests and predict the…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Interpreting Unfairness in Graph Neural Networks via Training Node Attribution

Yushun Dong, Song Wang, Jing Ma +2

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the leading paradigm for solving graph analytical problems in various real-world applications. Nevertheless, GNNs could potentially ren…

cs.LG2022★ 18 cited

CLEAR: Generative Counterfactual Explanations on Graphs

Jing Ma, Ruocheng Guo, Saumitra Mishra +2

Counterfactual explanations promote explainability in machine learning models by answering the question "how should an input instance be perturbed to obtain a desired predicted lab…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Learning Causal Effects on Hypergraphs

Jing Ma, Mengting Wan, Longqi Yang +3

Hypergraphs provide an effective abstraction for modeling multi-way group interactions among nodes, where each hyperedge can connect any number of nodes. Different from most existi…

cs.IR2022★ 28 cited

Empowering Next POI Recommendation with Multi-Relational Modeling

Zheng Huang, Jing Ma, Yushun Dong +2

With the wide adoption of mobile devices and web applications, location-based social networks (LBSNs) offer large-scale individual-level location-related activities and experiences…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Fairness in Graph Mining: A Survey

Yushun Dong, Jing Ma, Song Wang +2

Graph mining algorithms have been playing a significant role in myriad fields over the years. However, despite their promising performance on various graph analytical tasks, most o…

cs.LG2022★ 77 cited

Learning Fair Node Representations with Graph Counterfactual Fairness

Jing Ma, Ruocheng Guo, Mengting Wan +3

Fair machine learning aims to mitigate the biases of model predictions against certain subpopulations regarding sensitive attributes such as race and gender. Among the many existin…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Assessing the Causal Impact of COVID-19 Related Policies on Outbreak Dynamics: A Case Study in the US

Jing Ma, Yushun Dong, Zheng Huang +2

To mitigate the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, decision-makers and public authorities have announced various non-pharmaceutical policies. Analyzing the causal impact of these policie…