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).)