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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received extensive research attention due to their powerful information aggregation capabilities. Despite the success of GNNs, most of them suffer from the popularity bias issue in a graph caused by a small…

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Unsupervised graph representation learning is critical to a wide range of applications where labels may be scarce or expensive to procure. Contrastive learning (CL) is an increasingly popular paradigm for such settings and the…

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Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) establishes a new paradigm for learning graph representations without human annotations. Although remarkable progress has been witnessed recently, the success behind GCL is still left somewhat mysterious. In…

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Contrastive learning has become a key component of self-supervised learning approaches for graph-structured data. Despite their success, existing graph contrastive learning methods are incapable of uncertainty quantification for node…

Spectral graph contrastive learning often constructs low- and high-frequency views to capture complementary graph signals, but these views are commonly combined by graph-level or node-agnostic fusion rules. We show that graph-level fusion…

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The integration of graphs with Goal-conditioned Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (GCHRL) has recently gained attention, as intermediate goals (subgoals) can be effectively sampled from graphs that naturally represent the overall task…

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Existing studies show that node representations generated by graph neural networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, such as unnoticeable perturbations of adjacent matrix and node features. Thus, it is requisite to learn robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Jiayan Guo , Shangyang Li , Yue Zhao , Yan Zhang

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has garnered significant attention recently since it learns complex structural information from graphs through self-supervised learning manner. However, prevalent GCL models may suffer from performance…

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Graph neural networks, a powerful deep learning tool to model graph-structured data, have demonstrated remarkable performance on numerous graph learning tasks. To address the data noise and data scarcity issues in deep graph learning, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Kaize Ding , Zhe Xu , Hanghang Tong , Huan Liu

Self-supervised graph representation learning (SSGRL) is a representation learning paradigm used to reduce or avoid manual labeling. An essential part of SSGRL is graph data augmentation. Existing methods usually rely on heuristics commonly…

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We propose $\textbf{MGCL}$, a model-driven graph contrastive learning (GCL) framework that leverages graphons (probabilistic generative models for graphs) to guide contrastive learning by accounting for the data's underlying generative…

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Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) achieve remarkable success in Recommendation. To reduce the influence of data sparsity, Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) is adopted in GNN-based CF methods for enhancing performance. Most GCL methods…

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Subgraph representation learning based on Graph Neural Network (GNN) has exhibited broad applications in scientific advancements, such as predictions of molecular structure-property relationships and collective cellular function. In…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a prominent approach for learning from graph-structured data. However, their effectiveness can be significantly compromised when the graph structure is suboptimal. To address this issue, Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Shen Han , Zhiyao Zhou , Jiawei Chen , Zhezheng Hao , Sheng Zhou , Gang Wang , Yan Feng , Chun Chen , Can Wang

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

Graph self-supervised learning can reduce the need for labeled graph data and has been widely used in recommendation, social networks, and other web applications. However, existing methods often underuse high-frequency signals and may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Haojie Li , Mengjiao Zhang , Guanfeng Liu , Qiang Hu , Yan Wang , Junwei Du

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as a state-of-the-art strategy for learning representations of diverse graphs including social and biomedical networks. GCL widely uses stochastic graph topology augmentation, such as uniform…

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While some powerful neural network architectures (e.g., Transformer, Graph Neural Networks) have achieved improved performance in sequential recommendation with high-order item dependency modeling, they may suffer from poor representation…

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