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Graph contrastive learning (GCL) improves graph representation learning, leading to SOTA on various downstream tasks. The graph augmentation step is a vital but scarcely studied step of GCL. In this paper, we show that the node embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yifei Zhang , Hao Zhu , Zixing Song , Piotr Koniusz , Irwin King

Graph representation learning has attracted a surge of interest recently, whose target at learning discriminant embedding for each node in the graph. Most of these representation methods focus on supervised learning and heavily depend on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Pengpeng Shao , Tong Liu , Dawei Zhang , Jianhua Tao , Feihu Che , Guohua Yang

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has recently drawn much research interest for learning generalizable node representations in a self-supervised manner. In general, the contrastive learning process in GCL is performed on top of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Kaize Ding , Yancheng Wang , Yingzhen Yang , Huan Liu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently emerged as an effective approach to model neighborhood signals in collaborative filtering. Towards this research line, graph contrastive learning (GCL) demonstrates robust capabilities to address…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Xinzhou Jin , Jintang Li , Liang Chen , Chenyun Yu , Yuanzhen Xie , Tao Xie , Chengxiang Zhuo , Zang Li , Zibin Zheng

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has become a powerful tool for learning graph data, but its scalability remains a significant challenge. In this work, we propose a simple yet effective training framework called Structural Compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Shengzhong Zhang , Wenjie Yang , Xinyuan Cao , Hongwei Zhang , Zengfeng Huang

Graph augmentations are essential for graph contrastive learning. Most existing works use pre-defined random augmentations, which are usually unable to adapt to different input graphs and fail to consider the impact of different nodes and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yifu Chen , Qianqian Ren , Liu Yong

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

In recent years, deep learning on graphs has achieved remarkable success in various domains. However, the reliance on annotated graph data remains a significant bottleneck due to its prohibitive cost and time-intensive nature. To address…

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

Contrastive deep graph clustering (CDGC) leverages the power of contrastive learning to group nodes into different clusters. The quality of contrastive samples is crucial for achieving better performance, making augmentation techniques a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Xihong Yang , Erxue Min , Ke Liang , Yue Liu , Siwei Wang , Sihang Zhou , Huijun Wu , Xinwang Liu , En Zhu

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

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has shown strong promise for unsupervised graph representation learning, yet its effectiveness on heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes often belong to different classes, remains limited. Most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yanan Zhao , Feng Ji , Jingyang Dai , Jiaze Ma , Wee Peng Tay

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as a dominant technique for graph representation learning which maximizes the mutual information between paired graph augmentations that share the same semantics. Unfortunately, it is difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jun Xia , Lirong Wu , Jintao Chen , Bozhen Hu , Stan Z. Li

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) seeks to learn nodal or graph representations that contain maximal consistent information from graph-structured data. While node-level contrasting modes are dominating, some efforts commence to explore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Zhenhao Zhao , Minhong Zhu , Chen Wang , Sijia Wang , Jiqiang Zhang , Li Chen , Weiran Cai

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) learns node and graph representations by contrasting multiple views of the same graph. Existing methods typically rely on fixed, handcrafted views-usually a local and a global perspective, which limits their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yanan Zhao , Feng Ji , Jingyang Dai , Jiaze Ma , Keyue Jiang , Kai Zhao , Wee Peng Tay

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 proven highly effective in promoting the performance of Semi-Supervised Node Classification (SSNC). However, existing GCL methods are generally transferred from other fields like CV or NLP, whose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Deli Chen , Yankai Lin , Lei Li , Xuancheng Ren , Peng Li , Jie Zhou , Xu Sun

Graph representation learning (GRL) is a fundamental task in machine learning, aiming to encode high-dimensional graph-structured data into low-dimensional vectors. Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods are widely used in GRL because they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Shifeng Xie , Jhony H. Giraldo

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as the foremost approach for self-supervised learning on graph-structured data. GCL reduces reliance on labeled data by learning robust representations from various augmented views. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Ruyue Liu , Rong Yin , Yong Liu , Xiaoshuai Hao , Haichao Shi , Can Ma , Weiping Wang

This paper studies the problem of graph-level clustering, which is a novel yet challenging task. This problem is critical in a variety of real-world applications such as protein clustering and genome analysis in bioinformatics. Recent years…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Wei Ju , Yiyang Gu , Binqi Chen , Gongbo Sun , Yifang Qin , Xingyuming Liu , Xiao Luo , Ming Zhang