English
Related papers

Related papers: Augmentation-Free Graph Contrastive Learning with …

200 papers

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) is a popular method for leaning graph representations by maximizing the consistency of features across augmented views. Traditional GCL methods utilize single-perspective i.e. data or model-perspective)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zelin Yao , Chuang Liu , Xueqi Ma , Mukun Chen , Jia Wu , Xiantao Cai , Bo Du , Wenbin Hu

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

Inspired by the recent success of self-supervised methods applied on images, self-supervised learning on graph structured data has seen rapid growth especially centered on augmentation-based contrastive methods. However, we argue that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Namkyeong Lee , Junseok Lee , Chanyoung Park

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has recently emerged as an effective learning paradigm to alleviate the reliance on labelling information for graph representation learning. The core of GCL is to maximise the mutual information between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yizhen Zheng , Yu Zheng , Xiaofei Zhou , Chen Gong , Vincent CS Lee , Shirui Pan

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

By treating users' interactions as a user-item graph, graph learning models have been widely deployed in Collaborative Filtering(CF) based recommendation. Recently, researchers have introduced Graph Contrastive Learning(GCL) techniques into…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yonghui Yang , Zhengwei Wu , Le Wu , Kun Zhang , Richang Hong , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Meng Wang

Contrastive learning (CL) has become the de-facto learning paradigm in self-supervised learning on graphs, which generally follows the "augmenting-contrasting" learning scheme. However, we observe that unlike CL in computer vision domain,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Wen-Zhi Li , Chang-Dong Wang , Hui Xiong , Jian-Huang Lai

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

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) has emerged as a pivotal technique in the domain of graph representation learning. A crucial aspect of effective GCL is the caliber of generated positive and negative samples, which is intrinsically dictated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Xinjian Zhao , Liang Zhang , Yang Liu , Ruocheng Guo , Xiangyu Zhao

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 neural networks (GNNs) have recently emerged as an effective collaborative filtering (CF) approaches for recommender systems. The key idea of GNN-based recommender systems is to recursively perform message passing along user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Yangqin Jiang , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) is an effective paradigm for node representation learning in graphs. The key components hidden behind GCL are data augmentation and positive-negative pair selection. Typical data augmentations in GCL, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Jiaqiang Zhang , Songcan Chen

Graph contrastive learning (CL) methods learn node representations in a self-supervised manner by maximizing the similarity between the augmented node representations obtained via a GNN-based encoder. However, CL methods perform poorly on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Wenhan Yang , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

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

Existing graph contrastive learning (GCL) techniques typically require two forward passes for a single instance to construct the contrastive loss, which is effective for capturing the low-frequency signals of node features. Such a dual-pass…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Haonan Wang , Jieyu Zhang , Qi Zhu , Wei Huang , Kenji Kawaguchi , Xiaokui Xiao

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) 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 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

Self-supervised learning (especially contrastive learning) methods on heterogeneous graphs can effectively get rid of the dependence on supervisory data. Meanwhile, most existing representation learning methods embed the heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Shichao Zhu , Chuan Zhou , Anfeng Cheng , Shirui Pan , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Bin Wang