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Graph contrastive learning (GCL) aims to learn discriminative semantic invariance by contrasting different views of the same graph that share critical topological patterns. However, existing GCL approaches with structural augmentations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Qirui Ji , Bin Qin , Yifan Jin , Yunze Zhao , Chuxiong Sun , Changwen Zheng , Jianwen Cao , Jiangmeng Li

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 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

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 defines a contrastive task to pull similar instances close and push dissimilar instances away. It learns discriminative node embeddings without supervised labels, which has aroused increasing attention in the past…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Lin Shu , Chuan Chen , Zibin Zheng

Recently, contrastive learning (CL) plays an important role in exploring complementary information for multi-view clustering (MVC) and has attracted increasing attention. Nevertheless, real-world multi-view data suffer from data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Hongqing He , Jie Xu , Wenyuan Yang , Yonghua Zhu , Guoqiu Wen , Xiaofeng Zhu

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

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

Self-supervised graph representation learning has recently shown considerable promise in a range of fields, including bioinformatics and social networks. A large number of graph contrastive learning approaches have shown promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Wei Ju , Yiyang Gu , Zhengyang Mao , Ziyue Qiao , Yifang Qin , Xiao Luo , Hui Xiong , Ming Zhang

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in learning representations on graphs in recent years. To generate ideal augmentation views, the augmentation generation methods should preserve essential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Kaiqi Yang , Haoyu Han , Wei Jin , Hui Liu

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) shows great potential in unsupervised graph representation learning. Data augmentation plays a vital role in GCL, and its optimal choice heavily depends on the downstream task. Many GCL methods with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Xin Xiong , Furao Shen , Xiangyu Wang , Jian Zhao

Contrastive Learning (CL) has been proved to be a powerful self-supervised approach for a wide range of domains, including computer vision and graph representation learning. However, the incremental learning issue of CL has rarely been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Cheng Ji , Jianxin Li , Hao Peng , Jia Wu , Xingcheng Fu , Qingyun Sun , Phillip S. Yu

Contrastive learning (CL) has been widely used for enhancing the performance of graph collaborative filtering (GCF) for personalized recommendation. Since data augmentation plays a crucial role in the success of CL, previous works have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Doyun Choi , Cheonwoo Lee , Jaemin Yoo

Although graph contrastive learning (GCL) has been widely investigated, it is still a challenge to generate effective and stable graph augmentations. Existing methods often apply heuristic augmentation like random edge dropping, which may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Siqi Huang , Yanchen Xu , Hongyuan Zhang , Xuelong Li

Despite recent success, most contrastive self-supervised learning methods are domain-specific, relying heavily on data augmentation techniques that require knowledge about a particular domain, such as image cropping and rotation. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Vikas Verma , Minh-Thang Luong , Kenji Kawaguchi , Hieu Pham , Quoc V. Le

Representation learning on user-item graph for recommendation has evolved from using single ID or interaction history to exploiting higher-order neighbors. This leads to the success of graph convolution networks (GCNs) for recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Jiancan Wu , Xiang Wang , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He , Liang Chen , Jianxun Lian , Xing Xie

Graph representation learning has emerged as a powerful tool for preserving graph topology when mapping nodes to vector representations, enabling various downstream tasks such as node classification and community detection. However, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Kaizhe Fan , Quanjun Li

The top-k recommendation is a fundamental task in recommendation systems which is generally learned by comparing positive and negative pairs. The Contrastive Loss (CL) is the key in contrastive learning that has received more attention…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Hao Tang , Guoshuai Zhao , Yuxia Wu , Xueming Qian

Recently many efforts have been devoted to applying graph neural networks (GNNs) to molecular property prediction which is a fundamental task for computational drug and material discovery. One of major obstacles to hinder the successful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Shuangli Li , Jingbo Zhou , Tong Xu , Dejing Dou , Hui Xiong