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Self-supervised learning (SSL) on graphs generates node and graph representations (i.e., embeddings) that can be used for downstream tasks such as node classification, node clustering, and link prediction. Graph SSL is particularly useful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jiali Chen , Avijit Mukherjee

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 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 emerged as a powerful tool for extracting consistent representations from graphs, independent of labeled information. However, existing methods predominantly focus on undirected graphs, disregarding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Daohan Su , Yang Zhang , Xunkai Li , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

Recent analyses of self-supervised learning (SSL) find the following data-centric properties to be critical for learning good representations: invariance to task-irrelevant semantics, separability of classes in some latent space, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Puja Trivedi , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Mark Heimann , Danai Koutra , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan

The abundance of complex and interconnected healthcare data offers numerous opportunities to improve prediction, diagnosis, and treatment. Graph-structured data, which includes entities and their relationships, is well-suited for capturing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Safa Ben Atitallah , Chaima Ben Rabah , Maha Driss , Wadii Boulila , Anis Koubaa

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

In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a successful tool in a variety of graph-related applications. However, the performance of GNNs can be deteriorated when noisy connections occur in the original graph structures;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yixin Liu , Yu Zheng , Daokun Zhang , Hongxu Chen , Hao Peng , Shirui Pan

Graph contrastive learning (GCL), as an emerging self-supervised learning technique on graphs, aims to learn representations via instance discrimination. Its performance heavily relies on graph augmentation to reflect invariant patterns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Lu Lin , Jinghui Chen , Hongning Wang

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has recently emerged as a new concept which allows for capitalizing on the strengths of graph neural networks (GNNs) to learn rich representations in a wide variety of applications which involve abundant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Yuzhou Chen , Jose Frias , Yulia R. Gel

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as an effective tool for learning unsupervised representations of graphs. The key idea is to maximize the agreement between two augmented views of each graph via data augmentation. Existing GCL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Xin Zhang , Qiaoyu Tan , Xiao Huang , Bo Li

Unsupervised graph representation learning is a non-trivial topic. The success of contrastive methods in the unsupervised representation learning on structured data inspires similar attempts on the graph. Existing graph contrastive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Tianyu Zhang , Yuxiang Ren , Wenzheng Feng , Weitao Du , Xuecang Zhang

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) alleviates the heavy reliance on label information for graph representation learning (GRL) via self-supervised learning schemes. The core idea is to learn by maximising mutual information for similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yizhen Zheng , Shirui Pan , Vincent Cs Lee , Yu Zheng , Philip S. Yu

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) has recently emerged as an effective learning paradigm to alleviate the reliance on labelling information for graph representation learning. The core of GCL is to maximise the mutual information between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yizhen Zheng , Yu Zheng , Xiaofei Zhou , Chen Gong , Vincent CS Lee , Shirui Pan

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has recently received increased attention from machine learning researchers. By enabling effective propagation of known labels in graph-based deep learning (GDL) algorithms, SSL is poised to become an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Alex Morehead , Watchanan Chantapakul , Jianlin Cheng

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is effectively used for numerous classification problems, thanks to its ability to make use of abundant unlabeled data. The main assumption of various SSL algorithms is that the nearby points on the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Xuan Wu , Lingxiao Zhao , Leman Akoglu

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

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