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Molecular Machine Learning (ML) bears promise for efficient molecule property prediction and drug discovery. However, labeled molecule data can be expensive and time-consuming to acquire. Due to the limited labeled data, it is a great…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Yuyang Wang , Jianren Wang , Zhonglin Cao , Amir Barati Farimani

Recommender systems are widely deployed in various web environments, and self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently attracted significant attention in this field. Contrastive learning (CL) stands out as a major SSL paradigm due to its…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Yu Zhang , Lei Sang , Yi Zhang , Yiwen Zhang , Yun Yang

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)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Xiaojun Guo , Yifei Wang , Zeming Wei , Yisen Wang

Leveraging the diversity and quantity of data provided by various graph-structured data augmentations while preserving intrinsic semantic information is challenging. Additionally, successive layers in graph neural network (GNN) tend to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jie Chen , Hua Mao , Chuanbin Liu , Zhu Wang , Xi Peng

The rise of self-supervised learning, which operates without the need for labeled data, has garnered significant interest within the graph learning community. This enthusiasm has led to the development of numerous Graph Contrastive Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Qian Ma , Hongliang Chi , Hengrui Zhang , Kay Liu , Zhiwei Zhang , Lu Cheng , Suhang Wang , Philip S. Yu , Yao Ma

In computer vision, contrastive learning is the most advanced unsupervised learning framework. Yet most previous methods simply apply fixed composition of data augmentations to improve data efficiency, which ignores the changes in their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Yuhan Zhang , He Zhu , Shan Yu

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 works show that mean-teaching is an effective framework for unsupervised domain adaptive person re-identification. However, existing methods perform contrastive learning on selected samples between teacher and student networks, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Xiaobin Liu , Shiliang Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in representing data with dependencies by recursively propagating and aggregating messages along the edges. However, edges in real-world graphs often have varying degrees of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zheng Zhang , Junxiang Wang , Liang Zhao

Real-world graph datasets often arise from mixtures of populations, where graphs are generated by multiple distinct underlying distributions. In this work, we propose a unified framework that explicitly models graph data as a mixture of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ali Azizpour , Reza Ramezanpour , Santiago Segarra

Data augmentation has been widely used to improve generalizability of machine learning models. However, comparatively little work studies data augmentation for graphs. This is largely due to the complex, non-Euclidean structure of graphs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Tong Zhao , Yozen Liu , Leonardo Neves , Oliver Woodford , Meng Jiang , Neil Shah

Graph contrastive learning (GCL), learning the node representation by contrasting two augmented graphs in a self-supervised way, has attracted considerable attention. GCL is usually believed to learn the invariant representation. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Yanhu Mo , Xiao Wang , Shaohua Fan , Chuan Shi

In this paper, we study the problem of unsupervised graph representation learning by harnessing the control properties of dynamical networks defined on graphs. Our approach introduces a novel framework for contrastive learning, a widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Obaid Ullah Ahmad , Anwar Said , Mudassir Shabbir , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

The superiority of graph contrastive learning (GCL) has prompted its application to anomaly detection tasks for more powerful risk warning systems. Unfortunately, existing GCL-based models tend to excessively prioritize overall detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yiming Xu , Zhen Peng , Bin Shi , Xu Hua , Bo Dong , Song Wang , Chen Chen

Learning correspondences aims to find correct correspondences (inliers) from the initial correspondence set with an uneven correspondence distribution and a low inlier rate, which can be regarded as graph data. Recent advances usually use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Luanyuan Dai , Xiaoyu Du , Hanwang Zhang , Jinhui Tang

Heterogeneous graph pre-training (HGP) has demonstrated remarkable performance across various domains. However, the issue of heterophily in real-world heterogeneous graphs (HGs) has been largely overlooked. To bridge this research gap, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Haosen Wang , Chenglong Shi , Can Xu , Surong Yan , Pan Tang

Graph representation learning (GRL) is critical for graph-structured data analysis. However, most of the existing graph neural networks (GNNs) heavily rely on labeling information, which is normally expensive to obtain in the real world.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yizhen Zheng , Ming Jin , Shirui Pan , Yuan-Fang Li , Hao Peng , Ming Li , Zhao Li

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

Contrastive learning has emerged as a premier method for learning representations with or without supervision. Recent studies have shown its utility in graph representation learning for pre-training. Despite successes, the understanding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Amur Ghose , Yingxue Zhang , Jianye Hao , Mark Coates

Various graph contrastive learning models have been proposed to improve the performance of learning tasks on graph datasets in recent years. While effective and prevalent, these models are usually carefully customized. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Dongkuan Xu , Wei Cheng , Dongsheng Luo , Haifeng Chen , Xiang Zhang