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Graph anomaly detection aims to identify unusual patterns in graph-based data, with wide applications in fields such as web security and financial fraud detection. Existing methods typically rely on contrastive learning, assuming that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Di Jin , Jingyi Cao , Xiaobao Wang , Bingdao Feng , Dongxiao He , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

We propose an adaptive node feature selection approach for graph neural networks (GNNs) that identifies and removes unnecessary features during training. The ability to measure how features contribute to model output is key for interpreting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Ali Azizpour , Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

The graph structure is a commonly used data storage mode, and it turns out that the low-dimensional embedded representation of nodes in the graph is extremely useful in various typical tasks, such as node classification, link prediction ,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Xing Li , Wei Wei , Xiangnan Feng , Xue Liu , Zhiming Zheng

With the rise of contrastive learning, unsupervised graph representation learning has been booming recently, even surpassing the supervised counterparts in some machine learning tasks. Most of existing contrastive models for graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Chunyang Zhang , Hongyu Yao , C. L. Philip Chen , Yuena Lin

Graph clustering is essential in graph analysis for revealing structural patterns and node communities. Despite recent advances in self-supervised contrastive learning that have improved clustering via structural and attribute signals,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Lei Zhang , Fubo Sun , Haipeng Yang , Zhong Guan , Likang Wu

Graph clustering plays a pivotal role in unsupervised learning methods like spectral clustering, yet traditional methods for graph clustering often perpetuate bias through unfair graph constructions that may underrepresent some groups. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Adithya K Moorthy , V Vijaya Saradhi , Bhanu Prasad

Contrastive learning has recently established itself as a powerful self-supervised learning framework for extracting rich and versatile data representations. Broadly speaking, contrastive learning relies on a data augmentation scheme to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Ilgee Hong , Huy Tran , Claire Donnat

In this study, we undertake a reproducibility analysis of 'Learning Fair Graph Representations Via Automated Data Augmentations' by Ling et al. (2022). We assess the validity of the original claims focused on node classification tasks and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Thijmen Nijdam , Juell Sprott , Taiki Papandreou-Lazos , Jurgen de Heus

We study deceptive fairness attacks on graphs to answer the following question: How can we achieve poisoning attacks on a graph learning model to exacerbate the bias deceptively? We answer this question via a bi-level optimization problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Jian Kang , Yinglong Xia , Ross Maciejewski , Jiebo Luo , Hanghang Tong

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

Subgraph representation learning based on Graph Neural Network (GNN) has exhibited broad applications in scientific advancements, such as predictions of molecular structure-property relationships and collective cellular function. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yili Shen , Xiao Liu , Cheng-Wei Ju , Jiaxu Yan , Jun Yi , Zhou Lin , Hui Guan

Given the growing concerns about fairness in machine learning and the impressive performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on graph data learning, algorithmic fairness in GNNs has attracted significant attention. While many existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Paiheng Xu , Yuhang Zhou , Bang An , Wei Ai , Furong Huang

Graph instance contrastive learning has been proved as an effective task for Graph Neural Network (GNN) pre-training. However, one key issue may seriously impede the representative power in existing works: Positive instances created by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Xueyi Liu , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Fuchun Sun , Wenbing Huang , Junzhou Huang

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has recently achieved substantial advancements. Existing GCL approaches compare two different ``views'' of the same graph in order to learn node/graph representations. The underlying assumption of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Gehang Zhang , Bowen Yu , Jiangxia Cao , Xinghua Zhang , Jiawei Sheng , Chuan Zhou , Tingwen Liu

Contrastive learning methods have attracted considerable attention due to their remarkable success in analyzing graph-structured data. Inspired by the success of contrastive learning, we propose a novel framework for contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Xiaojuan Zhang , Jun Fu , Shuang Li

Influence maximization is a widely studied topic in network science, where the aim is to reach the maximum possible number of nodes, while only targeting a small initial set of individuals. It has critical applications in many fields,…

Recently, contrastiveness-based augmentation surges a new climax in the computer vision domain, where some operations, including rotation, crop, and flip, combined with dedicated algorithms, dramatically increase the model generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Han Yue , Chunhui Zhang , Chuxu Zhang , Hongfu Liu

Federated graph learning collaboratively learns a global graph neural network with distributed graphs, where the non-independent and identically distributed property is one of the major challenges. Most relative arts focus on traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Wenke Huang , Guancheng Wan , Mang Ye , Bo Du

We study feature propagation on graph, an inference process involved in graph representation learning tasks. It's to spread the features over the whole graph to the $t$-th orders, thus to expand the end's features. The process has been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Biao Xiang , Ziqi Liu , Jun Zhou , Xiaolong Li

The use of machine learning models in high-stake applications (e.g., healthcare, lending, college admission) has raised growing concerns due to potential biases against protected social groups. Various fairness notions and methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Zhiqun Zuo , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili , Xueru Zhang