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This work presents an unsupervised deep discriminant analysis for clustering. The method is based on deep neural networks and aims to minimize the intra-cluster discrepancy and maximize the inter-cluster discrepancy in an unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Jinyu Cai , Wenzhong Guo , Jicong Fan

Graph contrastive learning has been successfully applied in text classification due to its remarkable ability for self-supervised node representation learning. However, explicit graph augmentations may lead to a loss of semantics in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Wei Ai , Jianbin Li , Ze Wang , Yingying Wei , Tao Meng , Yuntao Shou , Keqin Lib

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

The popularity of self-supervised learning has made it possible to train models without relying on labeled data, which saves expensive annotation costs. However, most existing self-supervised contrastive learning methods often overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Weiquan Li , Xianzhong Long , Yun Li

Unsupervised contrastive learning has shown significant performance improvements in recent years, often approaching or even rivaling supervised learning in various tasks. However, its learning mechanism is fundamentally different from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yi-Ge Zhang , Jingyi Cui , Qiran Li , Yisen Wang

This paper studies the problem of class-imbalanced graph classification, which aims at effectively classifying the graph categories in scenarios with imbalanced class distributions. While graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Wei Ju , Zhengyang Mao , Siyu Yi , Yifang Qin , Yiyang Gu , Zhiping Xiao , Jianhao Shen , Ziyue Qiao , Ming Zhang

Recently, neighbor-based contrastive learning has been introduced to effectively exploit neighborhood information for clustering. However, these methods rely on the homophily assumption-that connected nodes share similar class labels and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Liang Peng , Yixuan Ye , Cheng Liu , Hangjun Che , Man-Fai Leung , Si Wu , Hau-San Wong

Graph contrastive learning (GCL), as a self-supervised learning method, can solve the problem of annotated data scarcity. It mines explicit features in unannotated graphs to generate favorable graph representations for downstream tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jinhuan Wang , Jiafei Shao , Zeyu Wang , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

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

Contrastive learning is a significant paradigm in graph self-supervised learning. However, it requires negative samples to prevent model collapse and learn discriminative representations. These negative samples inevitably lead to heavy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Yunhui Liu , Huaisong Zhang , Tieke He , Tao Zheng , Jianhua Zhao

Graph contrastive learning is the state-of-the-art unsupervised graph representation learning framework and has shown comparable performance with supervised approaches. However, evaluating whether the graph contrastive learning is robust to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Sixiao Zhang , Hongxu Chen , Xiangguo Sun , Yicong Li , Guandong Xu

Node representation learning has demonstrated its effectiveness for various applications on graphs. Particularly, recent developments in contrastive learning have led to promising results in unsupervised node representation learning for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Öykü Deniz Köse , Yanning Shen

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

Recently, contrastive self-supervised learning has become a key component for learning visual representations across many computer vision tasks and benchmarks. However, contrastive learning in the context of domain adaptation remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Mamatha Thota , Georgios Leontidis

Chromosome recognition is an essential task in karyotyping, which plays a vital role in birth defect diagnosis and biomedical research. However, existing classification methods face significant challenges due to the inter-class similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Ruijia Chang , Suncheng Xiang , Chengyu Zhou , Kui Su , Dahong Qian , Jun Wang

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in computer vision by supervisedly learning strong visual feature representations. However, training CNNs relies heavily on the availability of exhaustive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Jiabo Huang , Qi Dong , Shaogang Gong , Xiatian Zhu

Graph clustering is a crucial task in network analysis with widespread applications, focusing on partitioning nodes into distinct groups with stronger intra-group connections than inter-group ones. Recently, contrastive learning has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Xunlian Wu , Jingqi Hu , Anqi Zhang , Yining Quan , Qiguang Miao , Peng Gang Sun

Unsupervised learning methods for feature extraction are becoming more and more popular. We combine the popular contrastive learning method (prototypical contrastive learning) and the classic representation learning method (autoencoder) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Zeyu Cao , Xiaorun Li , Liaoying Zhao

Adversarial attacks exploit the vulnerabilities of convolutional neural networks by introducing imperceptible perturbations that lead to misclassifications, exposing weaknesses in feature representations and decision boundaries. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Longwei Wang , Navid Nayyem , Abdullah Rakin

Recent contrastive methods show significant improvement in self-supervised learning in several domains. In particular, contrastive methods are most effective where data augmentation can be easily constructed e.g. in computer vision.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Konstantinos Kallidromitis , Denis Gudovskiy , Kazuki Kozuka , Iku Ohama , Luca Rigazio