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Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has demonstrated great promise for learning generalizable graph representations from unlabeled data. However, conventional GCL approaches face two critical limitations: (1) the restricted expressive capacity…

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Graph representation learning (GRL) has emerged as a powerful technique for solving graph analytics tasks. It can effectively convert discrete graph data into a low-dimensional space where the graph structural information and graph…

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With the prosperity of contrastive learning for visual representation learning (VCL), it is also adapted to the graph domain and yields promising performance. However, through a systematic study of various graph contrastive learning (GCL)…

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Although augmentations (e.g., perturbation of graph edges, image crops) boost the efficiency of Contrastive Learning (CL), feature level augmentation is another plausible, complementary yet not well researched strategy. Thus, we present a…

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Advanced graph neural networks have shown great potentials in graph classification tasks recently. Different from node classification where node embeddings aggregated from local neighbors can be directly used to learn node labels, graph…

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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

In recent years, graph contrastive learning (GCL) has received increasing attention in recommender systems due to its effectiveness in reducing bias caused by data sparsity. However, most existing GCL models rely on heuristic approaches and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiakai Tang , Sunhao Dai , Zexu Sun , Xu Chen , Jun Xu , Wenhui Yu , Lantao Hu , Peng Jiang , Han Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in various graph representation learning tasks. However, most existing GNNs focus primarily on capturing local information through explicit graph convolution, often…

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Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) relies on semantically consistent graph augmentations, but common local perturbations provide limited control over global structural consistency, motivating a more principled global augmentation strategy. We…

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Graph augmentation with contrastive learning has gained significant attention in the field of recommendation systems due to its ability to learn expressive user representations, even when labeled data is limited. However, directly applying…

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Inspired by the success of contrastive learning (CL) in computer vision and natural language processing, graph contrastive learning (GCL) has been developed to learn discriminative node representations on graph datasets. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Zehong Wang , Qi Li , Donghua Yu , Xiaolong Han , Xiao-Zhi Gao , Shigen Shen

Graph learning methods have been extensively applied in diverse application areas. However, what kind of inherent graph properties e.g. graph proximity, graph structural information has been encoded into graph representation learning for…

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Incorporating Knowledge Graphs (KG) into recommeder system has attracted considerable attention. Recently, the technical trend of Knowledge-aware Recommendation (KGR) is to develop end-to-end models based on graph neural networks (GNNs).…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Ding Zou , Wei Wei , Ziyang Wang , Xian-Ling Mao , Feida Zhu , Rui Fang , Dangyang Chen

In this paper, we propose a new model to learn Adaptive Kernel-based Representations (AKBR) for graph classification. Unlike state-of-the-art R-convolution graph kernels that are defined by merely counting any pair of isomorphic…

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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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Yucheng Wu , Leye Wang , Xiao Han , Han-Jia Ye

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

This paper presents SimCLR: a simple framework for contrastive learning of visual representations. We simplify recently proposed contrastive self-supervised learning algorithms without requiring specialized architectures or a memory bank.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Ting Chen , Simon Kornblith , Mohammad Norouzi , Geoffrey Hinton

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) aims to learn discriminative semantic invariance by contrasting different views of the same graph that share critical topological patterns. However, existing GCL approaches with structural augmentations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Qirui Ji , Bin Qin , Yifan Jin , Yunze Zhao , Chuxiong Sun , Changwen Zheng , Jianwen Cao , Jiangmeng Li

The effectiveness of contrastive learning methods has been widely recognized in the field of graph learning, especially in contexts where graph data often lack labels or are difficult to label. However, the application of these methods to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Qiang Yu , Xinran Cheng , Shiqiang Xu , Chuanyi Liu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely applied in graph data modeling. However, existing GNNs are often trained in a task-driven manner that fails to fully capture the intrinsic nature of the graph structure, resulting in sub-optimal node…

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