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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…

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Molecular representation learning contributes to multiple downstream tasks such as molecular property prediction and drug design. To properly represent molecules, graph contrastive learning is a promising paradigm as it utilizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Yin Fang , Qiang Zhang , Haihong Yang , Xiang Zhuang , Shumin Deng , Wen Zhang , Ming Qin , Zhuo Chen , Xiaohui Fan , Huajun Chen

Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful tool for graph representation learning. However, most contrastive learning methods learn features of graphs with fixed coarse-grained scale, which might underestimate either local or global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Jun Wang , Weixun Li , Changyu Hou , Xin Tang , Yixuan Qiao , Rui Fang , Pengyong Li , Peng Gao , Guotong Xie

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has shown superior performance in representation learning in graph-structured data. Despite their success, most existing GCL methods rely on prefabricated graph augmentation and homophily assumptions. Thus,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Teng Xiao , Huaisheng Zhu , Zhengyu Chen , Suhang Wang

In the domain of recommendation and collaborative filtering, Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has become an influential approach. Nevertheless, the reasons for the effectiveness of contrastive learning are still not well understood. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Chengkai Liu , Jianling Wang , James Caverlee

Self-supervised learning on graphs can be bifurcated into contrastive and generative methods. Contrastive methods, also known as graph contrastive learning (GCL), have dominated graph self-supervised learning in the past few years, but the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Liang Wang , Xiang Tao , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Heterogeneous graph neural network (HGNN) is a very popular technique for the modeling and analysis of heterogeneous graphs. Most existing HGNN-based approaches are supervised or semi-supervised learning methods requiring graphs to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Cuiying Huo , Dongxiao He , Yawen Li , Di Jin , Jianwu Dang , Weixiong Zhang , Witold Pedrycz , Lingfei Wu

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) is the most representative and prevalent self-supervised learning approach for graph-structured data. Despite its remarkable success, existing GCL methods highly rely on an augmentation scheme to learn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Haonan Wang , Jieyu Zhang , Qi Zhu , Wei Huang

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Jinlu Wang , Yanfeng Sun , Jiapu Wang , Junbin Gao , Shaofan Wang , Jipeng Guo

Heterogeneous Graphs (HGs) effectively model complex relationships in the real world through multi-type nodes and edges. In recent years, inspired by self-supervised learning (SSL), contrastive learning (CL)-based Heterogeneous Graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yu Wang , Lei Sang , Yi Zhang , Yiwen Zhang , Xindong Wu

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

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

Recent years have seen a rapid growth of utilizing graph neural networks (GNNs) in the biomedical domain for tackling drug-related problems. However, like any other deep architectures, GNNs are data hungry. While requiring labels in real…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Mengying Sun , Jing Xing , Huijun Wang , Bin Chen , Jiayu Zhou

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as a pivotal technique in the domain of graph representation learning. A crucial aspect of effective GCL is the caliber of generated positive and negative samples, which is intrinsically dictated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Xinjian Zhao , Liang Zhang , Yang Liu , Ruocheng Guo , Xiangyu Zhao

Graph-level representations are critical in various real-world applications, such as predicting the properties of molecules. But in practice, precise graph annotations are generally very expensive and time-consuming. To address this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Shuai Lin , Pan Zhou , Zi-Yuan Hu , Shuojia Wang , Ruihui Zhao , Yefeng Zheng , Liang Lin , Eric Xing , Xiaodan Liang

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

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

Graph representation learning is fundamental for analyzing graph-structured data. Exploring invariant graph representations remains a challenge for most existing graph representation learning methods. In this paper, we propose a cross-view…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jie Chen , Hua Mao , Wai Lok Woo , Chuanbin Liu , Xi Peng

Unsupervised graph representation learning is critical to a wide range of applications where labels may be scarce or expensive to procure. Contrastive learning (CL) is an increasingly popular paradigm for such settings and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Puja Trivedi , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Yujun Yan , Yaoqing Yang , Danai Koutra

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a prominent framework for unsupervised graph representation learning. However, relying on augmentation design alone to define the invariances learned by GCL can be brittle under structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Mengyang Zhao , Longlong Li , Cunquan Qu