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Contrastive learning (CL), which can extract the information shared between different contrastive views, has become a popular paradigm for vision representation learning. Inspired by the success in computer vision, recent work introduces CL…

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Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) is an effective way to learn generalized graph representations in a self-supervised manner, and has grown rapidly in recent years. However, the underlying community semantics has not been well explored by…

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Hard negative mining has shown effective in enhancing self-supervised contrastive learning (CL) on diverse data types, including graph CL (GCL). The existing hardness-aware CL methods typically treat negative instances that are most similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Chaoxi Niu , Guansong Pang , Ling Chen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used in collaborative filtering to capture high-order user-item relationships. To address the data sparsity problem in recommendation systems, Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a…

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Inspired by the success of contrastive learning (CL) in computer vision and natural language processing, graph contrastive learning (GCL) has been developed to learn discriminative node representations on graph datasets. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Zehong Wang , Qi Li , Donghua Yu , Xiaolong Han , Xiao-Zhi Gao , Shigen Shen

Various graph contrastive learning models have been proposed to improve the performance of learning tasks on graph datasets in recent years. While effective and prevalent, these models are usually carefully customized. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Dongkuan Xu , Wei Cheng , Dongsheng Luo , Haifeng Chen , Xiang Zhang

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has recently drawn much research interest for learning generalizable node representations in a self-supervised manner. In general, the contrastive learning process in GCL is performed on top of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Kaize Ding , Yancheng Wang , Yingzhen Yang , Huan Liu

Graph Self-Supervised Learning (GSSL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for generating high-quality representations for graph-structured data. While multi-scale graph contrastive learning has received increasing attention, many existing…

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Recent studies show that graph convolutional network (GCN) often performs worse for low-degree nodes, exhibiting the so-called structural unfairness for graphs with long-tailed degree distributions prevalent in the real world. Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Ruijia Wang , Xiao Wang , Chuan Shi , Le Song

Graph representation learning (GRL) makes considerable progress recently, which encodes graphs with topological structures into low-dimensional embeddings. Meanwhile, the time-consuming and costly process of annotating graph labels manually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Haojun Jiang , Jiawei Sun , Jie Li , Chentao Wu

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

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as a state-of-the-art strategy for learning representations of diverse graphs including social and biomedical networks. GCL widely uses stochastic graph topology augmentation, such as uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Yucheng Wu , Leye Wang , Xiao Han , Han-Jia Ye

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

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has recently emerged as a promising approach for graph representation learning. Some existing methods adopt the 1-vs-K scheme to construct one positive and K negative samples for each graph, but it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Minjie Chen , Yao Cheng , Ye Wang , Xiang Li , Ming Gao

Contrastive learning has been widely applied to graph representation learning, where the view generators play a vital role in generating effective contrastive samples. Most of the existing contrastive learning methods employ pre-defined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yihang Yin , Qingzhong Wang , Siyu Huang , Haoyi Xiong , Xiang Zhang

Graph contrastive learning (GCL), learning the node representation by contrasting two augmented graphs in a self-supervised way, has attracted considerable attention. GCL is usually believed to learn the invariant representation. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Yanhu Mo , Xiao Wang , Shaohua Fan , Chuan Shi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received extensive research attention due to their powerful information aggregation capabilities. Despite the success of GNNs, most of them suffer from the popularity bias issue in a graph caused by a small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Yuntao Shou , Haozhi Lan , Xiangyong Cao

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has achieved remarkable success by following the computer vision paradigm of preserving absolute similarity between augmented views. However, this approach faces fundamental challenges in graphs due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zhiyuan Ning , Pengfei Wang , Ziyue Qiao , Pengyang Wang , Yuanchun Zhou

Graph classification has gained significant attention due to its applications in chemistry, social networks, and bioinformatics. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) effectively capture local structural patterns, they often overlook global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Ahmet Sami Korkmaz , Selim Coskunuzer , Md Joshem Uddin

Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful tool for graph representation learning. However, most contrastive learning methods learn features of graphs with fixed coarse-grained scale, which might underestimate either local or global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Jun Wang , Weixun Li , Changyu Hou , Xin Tang , Yixuan Qiao , Rui Fang , Pengyong Li , Peng Gao , Guotong Xie