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We introduce a novel masked graph autoencoder (MGAE) framework to perform effective learning on graph structure data. Taking insights from self-supervised learning, we randomly mask a large proportion of edges and try to reconstruct these…

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Unsupervised graph representation learning (UGRL) has drawn increasing research attention and achieved promising results in several graph analytic tasks. Relying on the homophily assumption, existing UGRL methods tend to smooth the learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Yixin Liu , Yizhen Zheng , Daokun Zhang , Vincent CS Lee , Shirui Pan

Existing foundation models, such as CLIP, aim to learn a unified embedding space for multimodal data, enabling a wide range of downstream web-based applications like search, recommendation, and content classification. However, these models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yufei He , Yuan Sui , Xiaoxin He , Yue Liu , Yifei Sun , Bryan Hooi

Machine Unlearning (MU) aims to selectively erase the influence of specific data points from pretrained models. However, most existing MU methods rely on the retain set to preserve model utility, which is often impractical due to privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Xindi Fan , Jing Wu , Mingyi Zhou , Pengwei Liang , Mehrtash Harandi , Dinh Phung

Federated graph learning (FGL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train powerful graph neural networks without sharing their private, decentralized graph data. Inherited from generic federated learning, FGL is critically challenged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Xinrui Li , Qilin Fan , Tianfu Wang , Kaiwen Wei , Ke Yu , Xu Zhang

Graph pre-training strategies have been attracting a surge of attention in the graph mining community, due to their flexibility in parameterizing graph neural networks (GNNs) without any label information. The key idea lies in encoding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Dawei Zhou , Lecheng Zheng , Dongqi Fu , Jiawei Han , Jingrui He

Modern recommender systems powered by Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel at modeling complex user-item interactions, yet increasingly face scenarios requiring selective forgetting of training data. Beyond user requests to remove specific…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Guoxuan Chen , Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang

Semi-supervised learning on graphs is a widely applicable problem in network science and machine learning. Two standard algorithms -- label propagation and graph neural networks -- both operate by repeatedly passing information along edges,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Junteng Jia , Austin R. Benson

The objective of machine unlearning (MU) is to eliminate previously learned data from a model. However, it is challenging to strike a balance between computation cost and performance when using existing MU techniques. Taking inspiration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Zonglin Di , Zhaowei Zhu , Jinghan Jia , Jiancheng Liu , Zafar Takhirov , Bo Jiang , Yuanshun Yao , Sijia Liu , Yang Liu

Recent advancements in graph unlearning models have enhanced model utility by preserving the node representation essentially invariant, while using gradient ascent on the forget set to achieve unlearning. However, this approach causes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Qiang Chen , Zhongze Wu , Ang He , Xi Lin , Shuo Jiang , Shan You , Chang Xu , Yi Chen , Xiu Su

Graph neural networks (GNNs) demonstrate outstanding performance in a broad range of applications. While the majority of GNN applications assume that a graph structure is given, some recent methods substantially expanded the applicability…

Machine unlearning (MU) is to make a well-trained model behave as if it had never been trained on specific data. In today's over-parameterized models, dominated by neural networks, a common approach is to manually relabel data and fine-tune…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Ruikai Yang , Mingzhen He , Zhengbao He , Youmei Qiu , Xiaolin Huang

Federated graph learning is a widely recognized technique that promotes collaborative training of graph neural networks (GNNs) by multi-client graphs.However, existing approaches heavily rely on the communication of model parameters or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Hao Zhang , Xunkai Li , Yinlin Zhu , Lianglin Hu

Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of a designated forget set from a trained model while preserving utility on the retained data. In modern deep networks, approximate unlearning frequently fails under large or adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Roummel Marcia , Bruce J. West , YangQuan Chen

Textual graphs are ubiquitous in real-world applications, featuring rich text information with complex relationships, which enables advanced research across various fields. Textual graph representation learning aims to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Wenbin Hu , Huihao Jing , Qi Hu , Haoran Li , Yangqiu Song

Machine unlearning for text-to-image diffusion models aims to selectively remove undesirable concepts from pre-trained models without costly retraining. Current unlearning methods share a common weakness: erased concepts return when the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Aljalila Aladawi , Mohammed Talha Alam , Fakhri Karray

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have extended the success of deep neural networks (DNNs) to non-Euclidean graph data, achieving ground-breaking performance on various tasks such as node classification and graph property prediction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Tianfeng Liu , Yangrui Chen , Dan Li , Chuan Wu , Yibo Zhu , Jun He , Yanghua Peng , Hongzheng Chen , Hongzhi Chen , Chuanxiong Guo

Representation learning on text-attributed graphs (TAGs), where nodes are represented by textual descriptions, is crucial for textual and relational knowledge systems and recommendation systems. Currently, state-of-the-art embedding methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yi Fang , Dongzhe Fan , Sirui Ding , Ninghao Liu , Qiaoyu Tan

Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific data from trained models while preserving general utility. Existing approximate unlearning methods often rely on performance-degradation heuristics, such as loss maximization or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jonas Mirlach , Sonia Laguna , Julia E. Vogt

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been applied into a variety of graph tasks. Most existing work of GNNs is based on the assumption that the given graph data is optimal, while it is inevitable that there exists missing or incomplete edges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Qianggang Ding , Deheng Ye , Tingyang Xu , Peilin Zhao