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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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ali Azizpour , Nicolas Zilberstein , Santiago Segarra

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as a representative paradigm in graph self-supervised learning, where negative samples are commonly regarded as the key to preventing model collapse and producing distinguishable representations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Wangbin Sun , Jintang Li , Liang Chen , Bingzhe Wu , Yatao Bian , Zibin Zheng

The recent emergence of contrastive learning approaches facilitates the application on graph representation learning (GRL), introducing graph contrastive learning (GCL) into the literature. These methods contrast semantically similar and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Ganqu Cui , Yufeng Du , Cheng Yang , Jie Zhou , Liang Xu , Xing Zhou , Xingyi Cheng , Zhiyuan Liu

Contrastive learning (CL), which can extract the information shared between different contrastive views, has become a popular paradigm for vision representation learning. Inspired by the success in computer vision, recent work introduces CL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Xumeng Gong , Cheng Yang , Chuan Shi

Recently, contrastive learning (CL) has emerged as a successful method for unsupervised graph representation learning. Most graph CL methods first perform stochastic augmentation on the input graph to obtain two graph views and maximize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Yanqiao Zhu , Yichen Xu , Feng Yu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) is a popular method for leaning graph representations by maximizing the consistency of features across augmented views. Traditional GCL methods utilize single-perspective i.e. data or model-perspective)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zelin Yao , Chuang Liu , Xueqi Ma , Mukun Chen , Jia Wu , Xiantao Cai , Bo Du , Wenbin Hu

Contrastive Learning (CL) has emerged as a dominant technique for unsupervised representation learning which embeds augmented versions of the anchor close to each other (positive samples) and pushes the embeddings of other samples…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Jun Xia , Lirong Wu , Ge Wang , Jintao Chen , Stan Z. Li

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) aims to align the positive features while differentiating the negative features in the latent space by minimizing a pair-wise contrastive loss. As the embodiment of an outstanding discriminative unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jiangmeng Li , Yifan Jin , Hang Gao , Wenwen Qiang , Changwen Zheng , Fuchun Sun

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Yuntao Shou , Haozhi Lan , Xiangyong Cao

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has recently emerged as an effective learning paradigm to alleviate the reliance on labelling information for graph representation learning. The core of GCL is to maximise the mutual information between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yizhen Zheng , Yu Zheng , Xiaofei Zhou , Chen Gong , Vincent CS Lee , Shirui Pan

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

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently emerged as an effective approach to model neighborhood signals in collaborative filtering. Towards this research line, graph contrastive learning (GCL) demonstrates robust capabilities to address…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Xinzhou Jin , Jintang Li , Liang Chen , Chenyun Yu , Yuanzhen Xie , Tao Xie , Chengxiang Zhuo , Zang Li , Zibin Zheng

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in learning graph representations and thus facilitating various graph-related tasks. However, most GNN methods adopt a supervised learning setting, which is not always feasible in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Hongliang Chi , Yao Ma

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) has become a hot topic in the field of graph representation learning. In contrast to traditional supervised learning relying on a large number of labels, GCL exploits augmentation strategies to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jianqing Liang , Xinkai Wei , Min Chen , Zhiqiang Wang , Jiye Liang

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

In recent years, deep learning on graphs has achieved remarkable success in various domains. However, the reliance on annotated graph data remains a significant bottleneck due to its prohibitive cost and time-intensive nature. To address…

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) aligns node representations by classifying node pairs into positives and negatives using a selection process that typically relies on establishing correspondences within two augmented graphs. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Maysam Behmanesh , Maks Ovsjanikov

Recent advancements in Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in improving graph representations. However, relying on predefined augmentations (e.g., node dropping, edge perturbation, attribute masking)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin , Shihao Ji , Esra Akbas