Opinion Maximization Based on Fairness in Social Networks
摘要
Opinion maximization has attracted much attention in viral marketing. It selects an initial seed user set to disseminate user opinions on the target product and finally produces more positive opinions in social networks. In earlier studies, a critical but not studied problem is the fairness of information dissemination in groups with sensitive characteristic (such as age or race). People prefer to promote products for target users (majority groups) rather than in sensitive characteristic groups (minority groups). That leads to the differences in information dissemination between minority groups. In addition, social networks have the in-depth structural information. Therefore, in this paper, we design opinion maximization based on fairness framework (OMBF) using graph attention networks (GAT) to exploit more network information, and only consider the fairness in minority groups. OMBF composes of three parts: (1) the determination of candidate nodes according to node representations, (2) the dynamic changes in opinions, (3) the selection of final seed nodes. Firstly, we utilize GAT to obtain node representations and to determinate candidate nodes and design a node opinion formation model to model the dynamic changes in opinions. Then, we use the fair constraint value to ensure the fairness in the information dissemination process of minority groups. Based on above, final seed nodes are selected. We conduct experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets to show the effectiveness of our approach. The results indicate that the total opinions of active nodes in all nodes and fair values in minority groups are better than the chosen state-of-the-art benchmarks.