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This paper introduces Variable Substitution as a domain-specific graph augmentation technique for graph contrastive learning (GCL) in the context of searching for mathematical formulas. Standard GCL augmentation techniques often distort the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chun-Hsi Ku , Hung-Hsuan Chen

Graph contrastive learning has gained significant progress recently. However, existing works have rarely explored non-aligned node-node contrasting. In this paper, we propose a novel graph contrastive learning method named RoSA that focuses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yun Zhu , Jianhao Guo , Fei Wu , Siliang Tang

With the rise of contrastive learning, unsupervised graph representation learning has been booming recently, even surpassing the supervised counterparts in some machine learning tasks. Most of existing contrastive models for graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Chunyang Zhang , Hongyu Yao , C. L. Philip Chen , Yuena Lin

Graph representation learning (GRL) makes considerable progress recently, which encodes graphs with topological structures into low-dimensional embeddings. Meanwhile, the time-consuming and costly process of annotating graph labels manually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Haojun Jiang , Jiawei Sun , Jie Li , Chentao Wu

Robust frame-wise embeddings are essential to perform video analysis and understanding tasks. We present a self-supervised method for representation learning based on aligning temporal video sequences. Our framework uses a transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Keyne Oei , Amr Gomaa , Anna Maria Feit , João Belo

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

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has shown superior performance in representation learning in graph-structured data. Despite their success, most existing GCL methods rely on prefabricated graph augmentation and homophily assumptions. Thus,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Teng Xiao , Huaisheng Zhu , Zhengyu Chen , Suhang Wang

In recent years, the use of edge information provided by knowledge graphs together with the advantages of higher-order connectivity in graph neural networks for recommendation systems has become an important research direction. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhifei Hu , Feng Xia

Contrastive learning has become a key component of self-supervised learning approaches for graph-structured data. Despite their success, existing graph contrastive learning methods are incapable of uncertainty quantification for node…

Multi-view representation learning has developed rapidly over the past decades and has been applied in many fields. However, most previous works assumed that each view is complete and aligned. This leads to an inevitable deterioration in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Yiming Wang , Dongxia Chang , Zhiqiang Fu , Jie Wen , Yao Zhao

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

Learning good image representations that are beneficial to downstream tasks is a challenging task in computer vision. As such, a wide variety of self-supervised learning approaches have been proposed. Among them, contrastive learning has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Yun Yue , Fangzhou Lin , Kazunori D Yamada , Ziming Zhang

We propose $\textbf{MGCL}$, a model-driven graph contrastive learning (GCL) framework that leverages graphons (probabilistic generative models for graphs) to guide contrastive learning by accounting for the data's underlying generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ali Azizpour , Nicolas Zilberstein , Santiago Segarra

Data augmentation plays a critical role in generating high-quality positive and negative pairs necessary for effective contrastive learning. However, common practices involve using a single augmentation policy repeatedly to generate…

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Self-supervised learning on graph-structured data has drawn recent interest for learning generalizable, transferable and robust representations from unlabeled graphs. Among many, graph contrastive learning (GraphCL) has emerged with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Yuning You , Tianlong Chen , Yang Shen , Zhangyang Wang

Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) have significantly propelled the information retrieval (IR) field. Still, the effectiveness of HGNNs heavily relies on high-quality labels, which are often expensive to acquire. This challenge has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Siqing Li , Jin-Duk Park , Wei Huang , Xin Cao , Won-Yong Shin , Zhiqiang Xu

The rich information underlying graphs has inspired further investigation of unsupervised graph representation. Existing studies mainly depend on node features and topological properties within static graphs to create self-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yiming Xu , Zhen Peng , Bin Shi , Xu Hua , Bo Dong

Although graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved impressive achievements in graph classification, they often need abundant task-specific labels, which could be extensively costly to acquire. A credible solution is to explore additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Nan Yin , Li Shen , Mengzhu Wang , Long Lan , Zeyu Ma , Chong Chen , Xian-Sheng Hua , Xiao Luo

We study self-supervised learning on graphs using contrastive methods. A general scheme of prior methods is to optimize two-view representations of input graphs. In many studies, a single graph-level representation is computed as one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Xinyi Xu , Cheng Deng , Yaochen Xie , Shuiwang Ji