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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

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

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has shown strong promise for unsupervised graph representation learning, yet its effectiveness on heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes often belong to different classes, remains limited. Most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yanan Zhao , Feng Ji , Jingyang Dai , Jiaze Ma , Wee Peng Tay

Self-supervised learning of graph neural networks (GNN) is in great need because of the widespread label scarcity issue in real-world graph/network data. Graph contrastive learning (GCL), by training GNNs to maximize the correspondence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Susheel Suresh , Pan Li , Cong Hao , Jennifer Neville

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) leverages data augmentation techniques to produce contrasting views, enhancing the accuracy of recommendation systems through learning the consistency between contrastive views. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Chu Zhao , Enneng Yang , Yuliang Liang , Jianzhe Zhao , Guibing Guo , Xingwei Wang

Leading graph contrastive learning (GCL) methods perform graph augmentations in two fashions: (1) randomly corrupting the anchor graph, which could cause the loss of semantic information, or (2) using domain knowledge to maintain salient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Sihang Li , Xiang Wang , An zhang , Yingxin Wu , Xiangnan He , Tat-Seng Chua

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) shows great potential in unsupervised graph representation learning. Data augmentation plays a vital role in GCL, and its optimal choice heavily depends on the downstream task. Many GCL methods with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Xin Xiong , Furao Shen , Xiangyu Wang , Jian Zhao

The pretasks are mainly built on mutual information estimation, which requires data augmentation to construct positive samples with similar semantics to learn invariant signals and negative samples with dissimilar semantics in order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Haifeng Li , Jun Cao , Jiawei Zhu , Qinyao Luo , Silu He , Xuyin Wang

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) is a powerful self-supervised learning framework that performs data augmentation through graph perturbations, with growing applications in the analysis of biological networks such as Gene Regulatory Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Sho Oshima , Yuji Okamoto , Taisei Tosaki , Ryosuke Kojima

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in learning graph representations and thus facilitating various graph-related tasks. However, most GNN methods adopt a supervised learning setting, which is not always feasible in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Hongliang Chi , Yao Ma

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

Contrastive learning (CL) recently has spurred a fruitful line of research in the field of recommendation, since its ability to extract self-supervised signals from the raw data is well-aligned with recommender systems' needs for tackling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Junliang Yu , Hongzhi Yin , Xin Xia , Tong Chen , Lizhen Cui , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen

Contrastive learning (CL) has recently been demonstrated critical in improving recommendation performance. The underlying principle of CL-based recommendation models is to ensure the consistency between representations derived from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Junliang Yu , Xin Xia , Tong Chen , Lizhen Cui , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung , Hongzhi Yin

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) is a widely adopted approach in self-supervised graph representation learning, applying contrastive objectives to produce effective representations. However, current GCL methods primarily focus on capturing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Dongxiao He , Yongqi Huang , Jitao Zhao , Xiaobao Wang , Zhen Wang

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 Contrastive Learning (GCL), learning the node representations by augmenting graphs, has attracted considerable attentions. Despite the proliferation of various graph augmentation strategies, some fundamental questions still remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Nian Liu , Xiao Wang , Deyu Bo , Chuan Shi , Jian Pei

This paper introduces Variable Substitution as a domain-specific graph augmentation technique for graph contrastive learning (GCL) in the context of searching for mathematical formulas. Standard GCL augmentation techniques often distort the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chun-Hsi Ku , Hung-Hsuan Chen

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

This paper presents SimCLR: a simple framework for contrastive learning of visual representations. We simplify recently proposed contrastive self-supervised learning algorithms without requiring specialized architectures or a memory bank.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Ting Chen , Simon Kornblith , Mohammad Norouzi , Geoffrey Hinton