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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) has emerged as a popular training approach for learning node embeddings from augmented graphs without labels. Despite the key principle that maximizing the similarity between positive node pairs while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yue Yu , Xiao Wang , Mengmei Zhang , Nian Liu , Chuan Shi

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) aims to learn representations from unlabeled graph data in a self-supervised manner and has developed rapidly in recent years. However, edgelevel contrasts are not well explored by most existing GCL methods.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yujun Li , Hongyuan Zhang , Yuan Yuan

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has become a hot topic in the field of graph representation learning. In contrast to traditional supervised learning relying on a large number of labels, GCL exploits augmentation strategies to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jianqing Liang , Xinkai Wei , Min Chen , Zhiqiang Wang , Jiye Liang

Contrastive learning (CL) recently has spurred a fruitful line of research in the field of recommendation, since its ability to extract self-supervised signals from the raw data is well-aligned with recommender systems' needs for tackling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Junliang Yu , Hongzhi Yin , Xin Xia , Tong Chen , Lizhen Cui , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen

Contrastive learning has been widely applied to graph representation learning, where the view generators play a vital role in generating effective contrastive samples. Most of the existing contrastive learning methods employ pre-defined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yihang Yin , Qingzhong Wang , Siyu Huang , Haoyi Xiong , Xiang Zhang

In recent decades, science and engineering have been revolutionized by a momentous growth in the amount of available data. However, despite the unprecedented ease with which data are now collected and stored, labeling data by supplementing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-05 Nicolas García Trillos , Daniel Sanz-Alonso , Ruiyi Yang

While contrastive self-supervised learning has become the de-facto learning paradigm for graph neural networks, the pursuit of higher task accuracy requires a larger hidden dimensionality to learn informative and discriminative…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jintang Li , Huizhe Zhang , Ruofan Wu , Zulun Zhu , Baokun Wang , Changhua Meng , Zibin Zheng , Liang Chen

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 contrastive learning (GCL), learning the node representation by contrasting two augmented graphs in a self-supervised way, has attracted considerable attention. GCL is usually believed to learn the invariant representation. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Yanhu Mo , Xiao Wang , Shaohua Fan , Chuan Shi

The self-supervised learning (SSL) paradigm is an essential exploration area, which tries to eliminate the need for expensive data labeling. Despite the great success of SSL methods in computer vision and natural language processing, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Piotr Bielak , Tomasz Kajdanowicz , Nitesh V. Chawla

Graph-level contrastive learning, aiming to learn the representations for each graph by contrasting two augmented graphs, has attracted considerable attention. Previous studies usually simply assume that a graph and its augmented graph as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yanbei Liu , Yu Zhao , Xiao Wang , Lei Geng , Zhitao Xiao

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as a state-of-the-art strategy for learning representations of diverse graphs including social and biomedical networks. GCL widely uses stochastic graph topology augmentation, such as uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Yucheng Wu , Leye Wang , Xiao Han , Han-Jia Ye

Recent works demonstrate that GNN models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which refer to imperceptible perturbation on the graph structure and node features. Among various GNN models, graph contrastive learning (GCL) based methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yeonjun In , Kanghoon Yoon , Chanyoung Park

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-based collaborative filtering has been established as a prominent approach in recommendation systems, leveraging the inherent graph topology of user-item interactions to model high-order connectivity patterns and enhance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Fan Huang , Wei Wang

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) aims to contrast positive-negative counterparts to learn the node embeddings, whereas graph data augmentation methods are employed to generate these positive-negative samples. The variation, quantity, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Adnan Ali , Jinlong Li , Huanhuan Chen , Ali Kashif Bashir

Oversmoothing is a common phenomenon observed in graph neural networks (GNNs), in which an increase in the network depth leads to a deterioration in their performance. Graph contrastive learning (GCL) is emerging as a promising way of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Jintang Li , Wangbin Sun , Ruofan Wu , Yuchang Zhu , Liang Chen , Zibin Zheng

Graph matching has important applications in pattern recognition and beyond. Current approaches predominantly adopt supervised learning, demanding extensive labeled data which can be limited or costly. Meanwhile, self-supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Jianyuan Bo , Yuan Fang