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Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as a dominant technique for graph representation learning which maximizes the mutual information between paired graph augmentations that share the same semantics. Unfortunately, it is difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jun Xia , Lirong Wu , Jintao Chen , Bozhen Hu , Stan Z. Li

In the domain of recommendation and collaborative filtering, Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has become an influential approach. Nevertheless, the reasons for the effectiveness of contrastive learning are still not well understood. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Chengkai Liu , Jianling Wang , James Caverlee

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) alleviates the heavy reliance on label information for graph representation learning (GRL) via self-supervised learning schemes. The core idea is to learn by maximising mutual information for similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yizhen Zheng , Shirui Pan , Vincent Cs Lee , Yu Zheng , Philip S. Yu

Recommendation systems have become indispensable in various online platforms, from e-commerce to streaming services. A fundamental challenge in this domain is learning effective embeddings from sparse user-item interactions. While…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yansong Wang , Qihui Lin , Junjie Huang , Tao Jia

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for recommendation systems, but they often struggle under data sparsity and noise. To address these issues, we implemented LightGCL, a graph contrastive learning model that uses Singular Value…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Aravinda Jatavallabha , Prabhanjan Bharadwaj , Ashish Chander

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become powerful tools in modeling graph-structured data in recommender systems. However, real-life recommendation scenarios usually involve heterogeneous relationships (e.g., social-aware user influence,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Mengru Chen , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Wei Wei , Yong Xu , Ronghua Luo

Although graph contrastive learning (GCL) has been widely investigated, it is still a challenge to generate effective and stable graph augmentations. Existing methods often apply heuristic augmentation like random edge dropping, which may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Siqi Huang , Yanchen Xu , Hongyuan Zhang , Xuelong Li

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 emerged as a promising technique for improving recommender systems, addressing the challenge of data sparsity by using self-supervised signals from raw data. Integration of CL with graph convolutional network…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Jeongwhan Choi , Hyowon Wi , Chaejeong Lee , Sung-Bae Cho , Dongha Lee , Noseong Park

Graph contrastive learning (GCL), as an emerging self-supervised learning technique on graphs, aims to learn representations via instance discrimination. Its performance heavily relies on graph augmentation to reflect invariant patterns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Lu Lin , Jinghui Chen , Hongning Wang

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) learns node and graph representations by contrasting multiple views of the same graph. Existing methods typically rely on fixed, handcrafted views-usually a local and a global perspective, which limits their…

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

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has recently made progress as an unsupervised graph representation learning paradigm. GCL approaches can be categorized into augmentation-based and augmentation-free methods. The former relies on complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yanan Zhao , Feng Ji , Kai Zhao , Xuhao Li , Qiyu Kang , Wenfei Liang , Yahya Alkhatib , Xingchao Jian , Wee Peng Tay

Recent studies show that graph convolutional network (GCN) often performs worse for low-degree nodes, exhibiting the so-called structural unfairness for graphs with long-tailed degree distributions prevalent in the real world. Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Ruijia Wang , Xiao Wang , Chuan Shi , Le Song

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a promising approach in the realm of graph self-supervised learning. Prevailing GCL methods mainly derive from the principles of contrastive learning in the field of computer vision: modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zhiyuan Ning , Pengfei Wang , Pengyang Wang , Ziyue Qiao , Wei Fan , Denghui Zhang , Yi Du , Yuanchun Zhou

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) aims to learn node representations by aligning positive pairs and separating negative ones. However, few of researchers have focused on the inner law behind specific augmentations used in graph-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jingyu Liu , Huayi Tang , Yong Liu

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 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

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) often suffers from false negatives, which degrades the performance on downstream tasks. The existing methods addressing the false negative issue usually rely on human prior knowledge, still leading GCL to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yiyang Zhao , Chengpei Wu , Lilin Zhang , Ning Yang

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