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Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has recently drawn much research interest for learning generalizable node representations in a self-supervised manner. In general, the contrastive learning process in GCL is performed on top of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Kaize Ding , Yancheng Wang , Yingzhen Yang , Huan Liu

Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) have demonstrated their superiority in exploiting auxiliary information for recommendation tasks. However, graphs constructed using meta-paths in HGNNs are usually too dense and contain a large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Lei Sang , Yu Wang , Yiwen Zhang

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a powerful tool for extracting consistent representations from graphs, independent of labeled information. However, existing methods predominantly focus on undirected graphs, disregarding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Daohan Su , Yang Zhang , Xunkai Li , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

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

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) improves graph representation learning, leading to SOTA on various downstream tasks. The graph augmentation step is a vital but scarcely studied step of GCL. In this paper, we show that the node embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yifei Zhang , Hao Zhu , Zixing Song , Piotr Koniusz , Irwin King

Inspired by the successful application of contrastive learning on graphs, researchers attempt to impose graph contrastive learning approaches on heterogeneous information networks. Orthogonal to homogeneous graphs, the types of nodes and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yuanyuan Guo , Yu Xia , Rui Wang , Rongcheng Duan , Lu Li , Jiangmeng Li

We consider graph representation learning in a self-supervised manner. Graph neural networks (GNNs) use neighborhood aggregation as a core component that results in feature smoothing among nodes in proximity. While successful in various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Wei Zhuo , Guang Tan

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have been utilized as useful side information to improve recommendation quality. In those recommender systems, knowledge graph information often contains fruitful facts and inherent semantic relatedness among items.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Yuhao Yang , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Chenliang Li

Graph representation learning nowadays becomes fundamental in analyzing graph-structured data. Inspired by recent success of contrastive methods, in this paper, we propose a novel framework for unsupervised graph representation learning by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Yanqiao Zhu , Yichen Xu , Feng Yu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Recent studies show that graph neural networks (GNNs) are prevalent to model high-order relationships for collaborative filtering (CF). Towards this research line, graph contrastive learning (GCL) has exhibited powerful performance in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Xubin Ren , Lianghao Xia , Jiashu Zhao , Dawei Yin , Chao Huang

Hypergraph Convolutional Neural Networks (HGCNNs) have demonstrated their potential in modeling high-order relations preserved in graph-structured data. However, most existing convolution filters are localized and determined by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Jiying Zhang , Yuzhao Chen , Xi Xiao , Runiu Lu , Shu-Tao Xia

Unsupervised graph representation learning has emerged as a powerful tool to address real-world problems and achieves huge success in the graph learning domain. Graph contrastive learning is one of the unsupervised graph representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Haoran Yang , Hongxu Chen , Shirui Pan , Lin Li , Philip S. Yu , Guandong Xu

What role do augmentations play in contrastive learning? Recent work suggests that good augmentations are label-preserving with respect to a specific downstream task. We complicate this picture by showing that label-destroying augmentations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Alex Tamkin , Margalit Glasgow , Xiluo He , Noah Goodman

Various graph contrastive learning models have been proposed to improve the performance of learning tasks on graph datasets in recent years. While effective and prevalent, these models are usually carefully customized. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Dongkuan Xu , Wei Cheng , Dongsheng Luo , Haifeng Chen , Xiang Zhang

Graph classification is a widely studied problem and has broad applications. In many real-world problems, the number of labeled graphs available for training classification models is limited, which renders these models prone to overfitting.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Jiaqi Zeng , Pengtao Xie

Graph autoencoders (GAEs) and graph contrastive learning (GCL) are two major paradigms for self-supervised representation learning on graphs, yet they are often studied in isolation and treated as fundamentally different approaches. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jintang Li , Ruofan Wu , Yuchang Zhu , Huizhe Zhang , Zulun Zhu , Liang Chen

This paper focuses on learning representation on the whole graph level in an unsupervised manner. Learning graph-level representation plays an important role in a variety of real-world issues such as molecule property prediction, protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Ge Wang , Zelin Zang , Jiangbin Zheng , Jun Xia , Stan Z. Li

Graph contrastive learning is usually performed by first conducting Graph Data Augmentation (GDA) and then employing a contrastive learning pipeline to train GNNs. As we know that GDA is an important issue for graph contrastive learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Ziyan Zhang , Bo Jiang , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

Contrastive learning is an effective unsupervised method in graph representation learning, and the key component of contrastive learning lies in the construction of positive and negative samples. Previous methods usually utilize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Shengyu Feng , Baoyu Jing , Yada Zhu , Hanghang Tong

Graph matching has important applications in pattern recognition and beyond. Current approaches predominantly adopt supervised learning, demanding extensive labeled data which can be limited or costly. Meanwhile, self-supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Jianyuan Bo , Yuan Fang