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Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as an effective tool for learning unsupervised representations of graphs. The key idea is to maximize the agreement between two augmented views of each graph via data augmentation. Existing GCL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Xin Zhang , Qiaoyu Tan , Xiao Huang , Bo Li

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

Generalizable, transferrable, and robust representation learning on graph-structured data remains a challenge for current graph neural networks (GNNs). Unlike what has been developed for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Yuning You , Tianlong Chen , Yongduo Sui , Ting Chen , Zhangyang Wang , Yang Shen

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) is a widely adopted approach in self-supervised graph representation learning, applying contrastive objectives to produce effective representations. However, current GCL methods primarily focus on capturing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Dongxiao He , Yongqi Huang , Jitao Zhao , Xiaobao Wang , Zhen Wang

Self-supervised learning (especially contrastive learning) methods on heterogeneous graphs can effectively get rid of the dependence on supervisory data. Meanwhile, most existing representation learning methods embed the heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Shichao Zhu , Chuan Zhou , Anfeng Cheng , Shirui Pan , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Bin Wang

Graph contrastive learning (GCL), as a popular approach to graph self-supervised learning, has recently achieved a non-negligible effect. To achieve superior performance, the majority of existing GCL methods elaborate on graph data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yuansheng Wang , Wangbin Sun , Kun Xu , Zulun Zhu , Liang Chen , Zibin Zheng

Adversarial attacks on graphs have posed a major threat to the robustness of graph machine learning (GML) models. Naturally, there is an ever-escalating arms race between attackers and defenders. However, the strategies behind both sides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Qinkai Zheng , Xu Zou , Yuxiao Dong , Yukuo Cen , Da Yin , Jiarong Xu , Yang Yang , Jie Tang

Self-supervised learning of graph neural networks (GNN) is in great need because of the widespread label scarcity issue in real-world graph/network data. Graph contrastive learning (GCL), by training GNNs to maximize the correspondence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Susheel Suresh , Pan Li , Cong Hao , Jennifer Neville

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in the absence of task-specific labels. However, its scalability on large-scale graphs is hindered by the intensive message…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Xiang Chen , Kun Yue , Wenjie Liu , Zhenyu Zhang , Liang Duan

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in computer vision tasks such as image classification, segmentation, and object detection. However, they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which can cause incorrect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Suklav Ghosh , Sonal Kumar , Arijit Sur

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

Contrastive learning (CL) can learn generalizable feature representations and achieve the state-of-the-art performance of downstream tasks by finetuning a linear classifier on top of it. However, as adversarial robustness becomes vital in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Lijie Fan , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Gaoyuan Zhang , Chuang Gan

We propose Graph Contrastive Learning (GraphCL), a general framework for learning node representations in a self supervised manner. GraphCL learns node embeddings by maximizing the similarity between the representations of two randomly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Hakim Hafidi , Mounir Ghogho , Philippe Ciblat , Ananthram Swami

Contrastive Learning first extracts features from unlabeled data, followed by linear probing with labeled data. Adversarial Contrastive Learning (ACL) integrates Adversarial Training into the first phase to enhance feature robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ngoc N. Tran , Lam Tran , Hoang Phan , Anh Bui , Tung Pham , Toan Tran , Dinh Phung , Trung Le

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) is an effective way to learn generalized graph representations in a self-supervised manner, and has grown rapidly in recent years. However, the underlying community semantics has not been well explored by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Han Chen , Ziwen Zhao , Yuhua Li , Yixiong Zou , Ruixuan Li , Rui Zhang

Hard negative mining has shown effective in enhancing self-supervised contrastive learning (CL) on diverse data types, including graph CL (GCL). The existing hardness-aware CL methods typically treat negative instances that are most similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Chaoxi Niu , Guansong Pang , Ling Chen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have established themselves as a key component in addressing diverse graph-based tasks. Despite their notable successes, GNNs remain susceptible to input perturbations in the form of adversarial attacks. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Moshe Eliasof , Davide Murari , Ferdia Sherry , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

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 representation learning (GRL) makes considerable progress recently, which encodes graphs with topological structures into low-dimensional embeddings. Meanwhile, the time-consuming and costly process of annotating graph labels manually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Haojun Jiang , Jiawei Sun , Jie Li , Chentao Wu