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This paper introduces a fine-grained contrastive learning scheme for unsupervised node clustering. Previous clustering methods only focus on a small feature set (class-dependent features), which demonstrates explicit clustering…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Hang Cui , Tarek Abdelzaher

Graph clustering is a longstanding research topic, and has achieved remarkable success with the deep learning methods in recent years. Nevertheless, we observe that several important issues largely remain open. On the one hand, graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Li Sun , Feiyang Wang , Junda Ye , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

Multimodal Attributed Graphs (MMAGs) are an expressive data model for representing the complex interconnections among entities that associate attributes from multiple data modalities (text, images, etc.). Clustering over such data finds…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Haoran Zheng , Renchi Yang , Hongtao Wang , Jianliang Xu

Attributed Graph Clustering (AGC) is a fundamental unsupervised task that partitions nodes into cohesive groups by jointly modeling structural topology and node attributes. While the advent of graph neural networks and self-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yunhui Liu , Yue Liu , Yongchao Liu , Tao Zheng , Stan Z. Li , Xinwang Liu , Tieke He

Recent advances in unsupervised deep graph clustering have been significantly promoted by contrastive learning. Despite the strides, most graph contrastive learning models face challenges: 1) graph augmentation is used to improve learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Chusheng Zeng , Bocheng Wang , Jinghui Yuan , Rong Wang , Mulin Chen

Graph clustering has been popularly studied in recent years. However, most existing graph clustering methods focus on node-level clustering, i.e., grouping nodes in a single graph into clusters. In contrast, graph-level clustering, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Mengling Hu , Chaochao Chen , Weiming Liu , Xinyi Zhang , Xinting Liao , Xiaolin Zheng

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

This study introduces the Multi-Scale Weight-Based Pairwise Coarsening and Contrastive Learning (MPCCL) model, a novel approach for attributed graph clustering that effectively bridges critical gaps in existing methods, including long-range…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Binxiong Li , Yuefei Wang , Binyu Zhao , Heyang Gao , Benhan Yang , Quanzhou Luo , Xue Li , Xu Xiang , Yujie Liu , Huijie Tang

Attributed graph clustering or community detection which learns to cluster the nodes of a graph is a challenging task in graph analysis. In this paper, we introduce a contrastive learning framework for learning clustering-friendly node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Maedeh Ahmadi , Mehran Safayani , Abdolreza Mirzaei

Deep graph clustering (DGC), which aims to unsupervisedly separate the nodes in an attribute graph into different clusters, has seen substantial potential in various industrial scenarios like community detection and recommendation. However,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Yaowen Hu , Wenxuan Tu , Yue Liu , Xinhang Wan , Junyi Yan , Taichun Zhou , Xinwang Liu

Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) has exhibited remarkable potential in improving graph-based clustering. To handle the general clustering scenario without a prior graph, these models estimate an initial graph beforehand to apply GCN.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Mulin Chen , Bocheng Wang , Xuelong Li

Deep self-expressiveness-based subspace clustering methods have demonstrated effectiveness. However, existing works only consider the attribute information to conduct the self-expressiveness, which may limit the clustering performance. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Zhihao Peng , Hui Liu , Yuheng Jia , Junhui Hou

Attributed networks containing entity-specific information in node attributes are ubiquitous in modeling social networks, e-commerce, bioinformatics, etc. Their inherent network topology ranges from simple graphs to hypergraphs with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yiran Li , Gongyao Guo , Jieming Shi , Renchi Yang , Shiqi Shen , Qing Li , Jun Luo

The combination of the traditional convolutional network (i.e., an auto-encoder) and the graph convolutional network has attracted much attention in clustering, in which the auto-encoder extracts the node attribute feature and the graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Zhihao Peng , Hui Liu , Yuheng Jia , Junhui Hou

Graph-level representations (and clustering/classification based on these representations) are required in a variety of applications. Examples include identifying malicious network traffic, prediction of protein properties, and many others.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Xiang Li , Gagan Agrawal , Rajiv Ramnath , Ruoming Jin

Graph clustering aims to partition nodes into distinct clusters based on their similarity, thereby revealing relationships among nodes. Nevertheless, most existing methods do not fully utilize these edge weights. Leveraging edge weights in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Haobing Liu , Yinuo Zhang , Tingting Wang , Ruobing Jiang , Yanwei Yu

In recent years, the use of edge information provided by knowledge graphs together with the advantages of higher-order connectivity in graph neural networks for recommendation systems has become an important research direction. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhifei Hu , Feng Xia

Existing deep embedding clustering works only consider the deepest layer to learn a feature embedding and thus fail to well utilize the available discriminative information from cluster assignments, resulting performance limitation. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Zhihao Peng , Hui Liu , Yuheng Jia , Junhui Hou

Graph contrastive learning defines a contrastive task to pull similar instances close and push dissimilar instances away. It learns discriminative node embeddings without supervised labels, which has aroused increasing attention in the past…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Lin Shu , Chuan Chen , Zibin Zheng

Graph representation learning has attracted a surge of interest recently, whose target at learning discriminant embedding for each node in the graph. Most of these representation methods focus on supervised learning and heavily depend on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Pengpeng Shao , Tong Liu , Dawei Zhang , Jianhua Tao , Feihu Che , Guohua Yang