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Contrastive learning is an effective unsupervised method in graph representation learning. Recently, the data augmentation based contrastive learning method has been extended from images to graphs. However, most prior works are directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Shengyu Feng , Baoyu Jing , Yada Zhu , Hanghang Tong

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

This paper studies active learning (AL) on graphs, whose purpose is to discover the most informative nodes to maximize the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs). Previously, most graph AL methods focus on learning node representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Yanqiao Zhu , Weizhi Xu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Jinfeng Xu , Zheyu Chen , Shuo Yang , Jinze Li , Hewei Wang , Wei Wang , Xiping Hu , Edith Ngai

This work presents a novel approach to tabular data prediction leveraging graph structure learning and graph neural networks. Despite the prevalence of tabular data in real-world applications, traditional deep learning methods often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Jay Chiehen Liao , Cheng-Te Li

Causal graphs (CGs) are compact representations of the knowledge of the data generating processes behind the data distributions. When a CG is available, e.g., from the domain knowledge, we can infer the conditional independence (CI)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Takeshi Teshima , Masashi Sugiyama

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) relies on semantically consistent graph augmentations, but common local perturbations provide limited control over global structural consistency, motivating a more principled global augmentation strategy. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Nero Z. Li , Xuehao Zhai , Zhichao Shi , Boshen Shi , Xuhui Jiang

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

Among different existing graph self-supervised learning strategies, graph contrastive learning (GCL) has been one of the most prevalent approaches to this problem. Despite the remarkable performance those GCL methods have achieved, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Qianlong Wen , Zhongyu Ouyang , Chunhui Zhang , Yiyue Qian , Yanfang Ye , Chuxu Zhang

This work studies self-supervised graph learning for text-attributed graphs (TAGs) where nodes are represented by textual attributes. Unlike traditional graph contrastive methods that perturb the numerical feature space and alter the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yi Fang , Dongzhe Fan , Daochen Zha , Qiaoyu Tan

Graph representation learning is fundamental for analyzing graph-structured data. Exploring invariant graph representations remains a challenge for most existing graph representation learning methods. In this paper, we propose a cross-view…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jie Chen , Hua Mao , Wai Lok Woo , Chuanbin Liu , Xi Peng

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

Temporal Graph Learning, which aims to model the time-evolving nature of graphs, has gained increasing attention and achieved remarkable performance recently. However, in reality, graph structures are often incomplete and noisy, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Haozhen Zhang , Xueting Han , Xi Xiao , Jing Bai

Despite recent success, most contrastive self-supervised learning methods are domain-specific, relying heavily on data augmentation techniques that require knowledge about a particular domain, such as image cropping and rotation. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Vikas Verma , Minh-Thang Luong , Kenji Kawaguchi , Hieu Pham , Quoc V. Le

Self-supervised graph representation learning has recently shown considerable promise in a range of fields, including bioinformatics and social networks. A large number of graph contrastive learning approaches have shown promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Wei Ju , Yiyang Gu , Zhengyang Mao , Ziyue Qiao , Yifang Qin , Xiao Luo , Hui Xiong , Ming 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

Continual Learning has been challenging, especially when dealing with unsupervised scenarios such as Unsupervised Online General Continual Learning (UOGCL), where the learning agent has no prior knowledge of class boundaries or task change…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Nicolas Michel , Romain Negrel , Giovanni Chierchia , Jean-François Bercher

Brain networks/graphs derived from resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) help study underlying pathophysiology of neurocognitive disorders by measuring neuronal activities in the brain. Some studies utilize learning-based methods for brain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Qianqian Wang , Wei Wang , Yuqi Fang , Hong-Jun Li , Andrea Bozoki , Mingxia Liu

Text-Attributed Graphs (TAGs) enhance graph structures with natural language descriptions, enabling detailed representation of data and their relationships across a broad spectrum of real-world scenarios. Despite the potential for deeper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zheng Zhang , Yuntong Hu , Bo Pan , Chen Ling , Liang Zhao

Self-supervised contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful tool in machine learning and computer vision to learn meaningful representations from unlabeled data. Meanwhile, its empirical success has encouraged many theoretical studies to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Jingyi Cui , Hongwei Wen , Yisen Wang