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Graph representation learning is crucial for many real-world applications (e.g. social relation analysis). A fundamental problem for graph representation learning is how to effectively learn representations without human labeling, which is…

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The graph contrastive learning (GCL) framework has gained remarkable achievements in graph representation learning. However, similar to graph neural networks (GNNs), GCL models are susceptible to graph structural attacks. As an unsupervised…

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Existing graph contrastive learning methods rely on augmentation techniques based on random perturbations (e.g., randomly adding or dropping edges and nodes). Nevertheless, altering certain edges or nodes can unexpectedly change the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Huidong Liang , Xingjian Du , Bilei Zhu , Zejun Ma , Ke Chen , Junbin Gao

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) establishes a new paradigm for learning graph representations without human annotations. Although remarkable progress has been witnessed recently, the success behind GCL is still left somewhat mysterious. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yanqiao Zhu , Yichen Xu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu

Recent studies show that graph convolutional network (GCN) often performs worse for low-degree nodes, exhibiting the so-called structural unfairness for graphs with long-tailed degree distributions prevalent in the real world. Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Ruijia Wang , Xiao Wang , Chuan Shi , Le Song

Traditional Graph Neural Network (GNN), as a graph representation learning method, is constrained by label information. However, Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) methods, which tackle the label problem effectively, mainly focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Kai Yang , Yuan Liu , Zijuan Zhao , Peijin Ding , Wenqian Zhao

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has recently emerged as a promising approach for graph representation learning. Some existing methods adopt the 1-vs-K scheme to construct one positive and K negative samples for each graph, but it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Minjie Chen , Yao Cheng , Ye Wang , Xiang Li , Ming Gao

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used in collaborative filtering to capture high-order user-item relationships. To address the data sparsity problem in recommendation systems, Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Jinfeng Xu , Zheyu Chen , Shuo Yang , Jinze Li , Hewei Wang , Wei Wang , Xiping Hu , Edith Ngai

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 network (GNN) is a powerful learning approach for graph-based recommender systems. Recently, GNNs integrated with contrastive learning have shown superior performance in recommendation with their data augmentation schemes,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Xuheng Cai , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Xubin Ren

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) is an effective way to learn generalized graph representations in a self-supervised manner, and has grown rapidly in recent years. However, the underlying community semantics has not been well explored by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Han Chen , Ziwen Zhao , Yuhua Li , Yixiong Zou , Ruixuan Li , Rui Zhang

Hard negative mining has shown effective in enhancing self-supervised contrastive learning (CL) on diverse data types, including graph CL (GCL). The existing hardness-aware CL methods typically treat negative instances that are most similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Chaoxi Niu , Guansong Pang , Ling Chen

Graph Self-Supervised Learning (GSSL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for generating high-quality representations for graph-structured data. While multi-scale graph contrastive learning has received increasing attention, many existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mohamed Mahmoud Amar , Nairouz Mrabah , Mohamed Bouguessa , Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as a representative graph self-supervised method, achieving significant success. The currently prevalent optimization objective for GCL is InfoNCE. Typically, it employs augmentation techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yulan Hu , Sheng Ouyang , Jingyu Liu , Ge Chen , Zhirui Yang , Junchen Wan , Fuzheng Zhang , Zhongyuan Wang , Yong Liu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received extensive research attention due to their powerful information aggregation capabilities. Despite the success of GNNs, most of them suffer from the popularity bias issue in a graph caused by a small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Yuntao Shou , Haozhi Lan , Xiangyong Cao

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 has emerged as a powerful technique for learning graph representations that are robust and discriminative. However, traditional approaches often neglect the critical role of subgraph structures, particularly the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Tianhao Peng , Xuhong Li , Haitao Yuan , Yuchen Li , Haoyi Xiong

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

Contrastive Learning (CL) has recently emerged as a powerful technique in recommendation systems, particularly for its capability to harness self-supervised signals from perturbed views to mitigate the persistent challenge of data sparsity.…

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