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Recently, contrastive learning (CL) has emerged as a successful method for unsupervised graph representation learning. Most graph CL methods first perform stochastic augmentation on the input graph to obtain two graph views and maximize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Yanqiao Zhu , Yichen Xu , Feng Yu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Node classification is a key task in temporal graph learning (TGL). Real-life temporal graphs often introduce new node classes over time, but existing TGL methods assume a fixed set of classes. This assumption brings limitations, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hanmo Liu , Shimin Di , Haoyang Li , Xun Jian , Yue Wang , Lei Chen

In the domain of recommendation and collaborative filtering, Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has become an influential approach. Nevertheless, the reasons for the effectiveness of contrastive learning are still not well understood. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Chengkai Liu , Jianling Wang , James Caverlee

Recent advancements in Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in improving graph representations. However, relying on predefined augmentations (e.g., node dropping, edge perturbation, attribute masking)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin , Shihao Ji , Esra Akbas

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) aims to align the positive features while differentiating the negative features in the latent space by minimizing a pair-wise contrastive loss. As the embodiment of an outstanding discriminative unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jiangmeng Li , Yifan Jin , Hang Gao , Wenwen Qiang , Changwen Zheng , Fuchun Sun

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a powerful tool for extracting consistent representations from graphs, independent of labeled information. However, existing methods predominantly focus on undirected graphs, disregarding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Daohan Su , Yang Zhang , Xunkai Li , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

Generalizable, transferrable, and robust representation learning on graph-structured data remains a challenge for current graph neural networks (GNNs). Unlike what has been developed for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Yuning You , Tianlong Chen , Yongduo Sui , Ting Chen , Zhangyang Wang , Yang Shen

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as a representative graph self-supervised method, achieving significant success. The currently prevalent optimization objective for GCL is InfoNCE. Typically, it employs augmentation techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yulan Hu , Sheng Ouyang , Jingyu Liu , Ge Chen , Zhirui Yang , Junchen Wan , Fuzheng Zhang , Zhongyuan Wang , Yong Liu

We propose $\textbf{MGCL}$, a model-driven graph contrastive learning (GCL) framework that leverages graphons (probabilistic generative models for graphs) to guide contrastive learning by accounting for the data's underlying generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ali Azizpour , Nicolas Zilberstein , Santiago Segarra

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) aligns node representations by classifying node pairs into positives and negatives using a selection process that typically relies on establishing correspondences within two augmented graphs. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Maysam Behmanesh , Maks Ovsjanikov

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) aims to contrast positive-negative counterparts to learn the node embeddings, whereas graph data augmentation methods are employed to generate these positive-negative samples. The variation, quantity, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Adnan Ali , Jinlong Li , Huanhuan Chen , Ali Kashif Bashir

Contrastive learning methods based on InfoNCE loss are popular in node representation learning tasks on graph-structured data. However, its reliance on data augmentation and its quadratic computational complexity might lead to inconsistency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Hengrui Zhang , Qitian Wu , Yu Wang , Shaofeng Zhang , Junchi Yan , Philip S. Yu

Graph neural network (GNN) is a powerful learning approach for graph-based recommender systems. Recently, GNNs integrated with contrastive learning have shown superior performance in recommendation with their data augmentation schemes,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Xuheng Cai , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Xubin Ren

The rise of self-supervised learning, which operates without the need for labeled data, has garnered significant interest within the graph learning community. This enthusiasm has led to the development of numerous Graph Contrastive Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Qian Ma , Hongliang Chi , Hengrui Zhang , Kay Liu , Zhiwei Zhang , Lu Cheng , Suhang Wang , Philip S. Yu , Yao Ma

We propose Graph Contrastive Learning (GraphCL), a general framework for learning node representations in a self supervised manner. GraphCL learns node embeddings by maximizing the similarity between the representations of two randomly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Hakim Hafidi , Mounir Ghogho , Philippe Ciblat , Ananthram Swami

Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) aims to transfer the labels of a handful of labeled data to the remaining massive unlabeled data via a graph. As one of the most popular graph-based SSL approaches, the recently proposed Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Sheng Wan , Shirui Pan , Jian Yang , Chen Gong

Graph contrastive learning (GCL), as an emerging self-supervised learning technique on graphs, aims to learn representations via instance discrimination. Its performance heavily relies on graph augmentation to reflect invariant patterns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Lu Lin , Jinghui Chen , Hongning Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become popular in Graph Representation Learning (GRL). One fundamental application is few-shot node classification. Most existing methods follow the meta learning paradigm, showing the ability of fast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Hao Liu , Jiarui Feng , Lecheng Kong , Dacheng Tao , Yixin Chen , Muhan Zhang

The graph contrastive learning (GCL) framework has gained remarkable achievements in graph representation learning. However, similar to graph neural networks (GNNs), GCL models are susceptible to graph structural attacks. As an unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yulin Zhu , Xing Ai , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Kai Zhou

In recent years, graph neural networks (GNN) have achieved significant developments in a variety of graph analytical tasks. Nevertheless, GNN's superior performance will suffer from serious damage when the collected node features or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Sichao Fu , Qinmu Peng , Yang He , Baokun Du , Xinge You