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Recommender systems are widely deployed in various web environments, and self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently attracted significant attention in this field. Contrastive learning (CL) stands out as a major SSL paradigm due to its…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Yu Zhang , Lei Sang , Yi Zhang , Yiwen Zhang , Yun Yang

In the rapidly evolving field of self-supervised learning on graphs, generative and contrastive methodologies have emerged as two dominant approaches. Our study focuses on masked feature reconstruction (MFR), a generative technique where a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jianyuan Bo , Yuan Fang

Deep learning models are modern tools for spatio-temporal graph (STG) forecasting. Though successful, we argue that data scarcity is a key factor limiting their recent improvements. Meanwhile, contrastive learning has been an effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Xu Liu , Yuxuan Liang , Chao Huang , Yu Zheng , Bryan Hooi , Roger Zimmermann

Self-supervision is recently surging at its new frontier of graph learning. It facilitates graph representations beneficial to downstream tasks; but its success could hinge on domain knowledge for handcraft or the often expensive trials and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Yuning You , Tianlong Chen , Zhangyang Wang , Yang Shen

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

Contrastive graph node clustering via learnable data augmentation is a hot research spot in the field of unsupervised graph learning. The existing methods learn the sampling distribution of a pre-defined augmentation to generate data-driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Xihong Yang , Cheng Tan , Yue Liu , Ke Liang , Siwei Wang , Sihang Zhou , Jun Xia , Stan Z. Li , Xinwang Liu , En Zhu

This paper studies the problem of graph-level clustering, which is a novel yet challenging task. This problem is critical in a variety of real-world applications such as protein clustering and genome analysis in bioinformatics. Recent years…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Wei Ju , Yiyang Gu , Binqi Chen , Gongbo Sun , Yifang Qin , Xingyuming Liu , Xiao Luo , Ming Zhang

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has shown promising performance in graph representation learning (GRL) without the supervision of manual annotations. GCL can generate graph-level embeddings by maximizing the Mutual Information (MI) between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Jiawei Sun , Ruoxin Chen , Jie Li , Chentao Wu , Yue Ding , Junchi Yan

Continual learning (CL) involves acquiring and accumulating knowledge from evolving tasks while alleviating catastrophic forgetting. Recently, leveraging contrastive loss to construct more transferable and less forgetful representations has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Jia Tang , Xinrui Wang , Songcan Chen

Graph continual learning (GCL) aims to learn from a continuous sequence of graph-based tasks. Regularization methods are vital for preventing catastrophic forgetting in GCL, particularly in the challenging replay-free, class-incremental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Jie Yin , Ke Sun , Han Wu

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) is a potent paradigm for self-supervised graph learning that has attracted attention across various application scenarios. However, GCL for learning on Text-Attributed Graphs (TAGs) has yet to be explored.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Haoran Yang , Xiangyu Zhao , Sirui Huang , Qing Li , Guandong Xu

Although graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved impressive achievements in graph classification, they often need abundant task-specific labels, which could be extensively costly to acquire. A credible solution is to explore additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Nan Yin , Li Shen , Mengzhu Wang , Long Lan , Zeyu Ma , Chong Chen , Xian-Sheng Hua , Xiao Luo

Among various region embedding methods, graph-based region relation learning models stand out, owing to their strong structure representation ability for encoding spatial correlations with graph neural networks. Despite their effectiveness,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Qianru Zhang , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Zheng Wang , Zhonghang Li , Siuming Yiu

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 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

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) seeks to learn nodal or graph representations that contain maximal consistent information from graph-structured data. While node-level contrasting modes are dominating, some efforts commence to explore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Zhenhao Zhao , Minhong Zhu , Chen Wang , Sijia Wang , Jiqiang Zhang , Li Chen , Weiran Cai

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

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

Graph clustering is a crucial task in network analysis with widespread applications, focusing on partitioning nodes into distinct groups with stronger intra-group connections than inter-group ones. Recently, contrastive learning has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Xunlian Wu , Jingqi Hu , Anqi Zhang , Yining Quan , Qiguang Miao , Peng Gang Sun