14 papers
Fairness-Aware Network Embeddings: Methods, Applications, and Challenges
Ella Has, Harshith Kumar Yadav, Gaurav Dixit +2
Network embedding methods learn low-dimensional representations of graph-structured data to support downstream tasks such as node classification, link prediction, and influence max…
BetXplain: An Explanation-Annotated Dataset for Detecting Manipulative Betting Advertisements on Social Media
MSVPJ Sathvik, Parmitha Vangapandu, Nishit Rane +3
The promotion of betting applications on social media platforms has increased significantly in recent years. Many of these advertisements use persuasive techniques that may mislead…
Fairness in Opinion Dynamics
StanisÅaw StÄpieÅ, Michalina Janik, Mateusz Nurek +2
Ways in which people's opinions change are, without a doubt, subject to a rich tapestry of differing influences. Factors that affect how one arrives at an opinion reflect how they…
Persistent geographical biases in global scientific collaboration and citations
Leyan Wu, Yong Huang, Wei Lu +2
Scientific knowledge flows enable cumulative progress by connecting researchers across disciplines, institutions, and countries. Yet it remains unclear how geography and national s…
Fast degree-preserving rewiring of complex networks
Shane Mannion, Padraig MacCarron, Akrati Saxena +1
In this paper we introduce a new, fast, degree-preserving rewiring algorithm for altering the assortativity of complex networks, which we call \textit{Fast total link (FTL) rewirin…
Individual Fairness in Community Detection: Quantitative Measure and Comparative Evaluation
Fabrizio Corriera, Frank W. Takes, Akrati Saxena
Community detection is a fundamental task in complex network analysis. Fairness-aware community detection seeks to prevent biased node partitions, typically framed in terms of indi…