Structural Bias Beyond Homophily: A Study of Fairness in Link Prediction

Datasets for paper Structural Bias Beyond Homophily: A Study of Fairness in Link Prediction. synthetic_graphs.pkl is a dictionary with key (usecase, alpha, beta) and value being a synthetic graph replicating the usecase graph with alpha, beta parameters for size imbalance and homophily, respectively. collab.pkl is the used graph in Collaboration usecase. Nodes represent researchers and "sensitive" node attribute is the indicator of researcher being a woman. facebook.pkl is the used graph in Friendship usecase. (Leskovec, J., & Mcauley, J. (2012). Learning to discover social circles in ego networks. Advances in neural information processing systems, 25.) polblogs.pkl is the used graph in Opinion usecase. (Adamic, L. A., & Glance, N. (2005, August). The political blogosphere and the 2004 US election: divided they blog. In Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Link discovery (pp. 36-43).)