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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…

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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.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zheyu Chen , Jinfeng Xu , Yutong Wei , Ziyue Peng

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has recently made progress as an unsupervised graph representation learning paradigm. GCL approaches can be categorized into augmentation-based and augmentation-free methods. The former relies on complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yanan Zhao , Feng Ji , Kai Zhao , Xuhao Li , Qiyu Kang , Wenfei Liang , Yahya Alkhatib , Xingchao Jian , Wee Peng Tay

The last years have witnessed the emergence of a promising self-supervised learning strategy, referred to as masked autoencoding. However, there is a lack of theoretical understanding of how masking matters on graph autoencoders (GAEs). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jintang Li , Ruofan Wu , Wangbin Sun , Liang Chen , Sheng Tian , Liang Zhu , Changhua Meng , Zibin Zheng , Weiqiang Wang

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

Contrastive learning methods based on InfoNCE loss are popular in node representation learning tasks on graph-structured data. However, its reliance on data augmentation and its quadratic computational complexity might lead to inconsistency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Hengrui Zhang , Qitian Wu , Yu Wang , Shaofeng Zhang , Junchi Yan , Philip S. Yu

Graph augmentations are essential for graph contrastive learning. Most existing works use pre-defined random augmentations, which are usually unable to adapt to different input graphs and fail to consider the impact of different nodes and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yifu Chen , Qianqian Ren , Liu Yong

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) learns node and graph representations by contrasting multiple views of the same graph. Existing methods typically rely on fixed, handcrafted views-usually a local and a global perspective, which limits their…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in learning graph representations and thus facilitating various graph-related tasks. However, most GNN methods adopt a supervised learning setting, which is not always feasible in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Hongliang Chi , Yao Ma

Trapped by the label scarcity in molecular property prediction and drug design, graph contrastive learning (GCL) came forward. Leading contrastive learning works show two kinds of view generators, that is, random or learnable data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Xueyuan Chen , Shangzhe Li , Ruomei Liu , Bowen Shi , Jiaheng Liu , Junran Wu , Ke Xu

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) is a widely adopted approach in self-supervised graph representation learning, applying contrastive objectives to produce effective representations. However, current GCL methods primarily focus on capturing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Dongxiao He , Yongqi Huang , Jitao Zhao , Xiaobao Wang , Zhen Wang

Graph clustering, aiming to partition nodes of a graph into various groups via an unsupervised approach, is an attractive topic in recent years. To improve the representative ability, several graph auto-encoder (GAE) models, which are based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Hongyuan Zhang , Rui Zhang , Xuelong Li

Self-supervised learning with masked autoencoders has recently gained popularity for its ability to produce effective image or textual representations, which can be applied to various downstream tasks without retraining. However, we observe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yucheng Shi , Yushun Dong , Qiaoyu Tan , Jundong Li , Ninghao Liu

Graph neural networks have been used for a variety of learning tasks, such as link prediction, node classification, and node clustering. Among them, link prediction is a relatively under-studied graph learning task, with current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Xinxing Wu , Qiang Cheng

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

The recent emergence of contrastive learning approaches facilitates the application on graph representation learning (GRL), introducing graph contrastive learning (GCL) into the literature. These methods contrast semantically similar and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Ganqu Cui , Yufeng Du , Cheng Yang , Jie Zhou , Liang Xu , Xing Zhou , Xingyi Cheng , Zhiyuan Liu

Recent years, graph contrastive learning (GCL), which aims to learn representations from unlabeled graphs, has made great progress. However, the existing GCL methods mostly adopt human-designed graph augmentations, which are sensitive to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Xiao Shen , Dewang Sun , Shirui Pan , Xi Zhou , Laurence T. Yang

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has been extensively studied and leveraged as a potent tool in recommender systems. Most existing GCL-based recommenders generate contrastive views by altering the graph structure or introducing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Lijun Zhang , Yuan Yao , Haibo Ye

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

Graph-structured data is integral to many applications, prompting the development of various graph representation methods. Graph autoencoders (GAEs), in particular, reconstruct graph structures from node embeddings. Current GAE models…

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