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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently emerged as an effective collaborative filtering (CF) approaches for recommender systems. The key idea of GNN-based recommender systems is to recursively perform message passing along user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Yangqin Jiang , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are sensitive to structural noise from adversarial attacks or imperfections. Existing graph contrastive learning (GCL) methods typically rely on either random perturbations (e.g., edge dropping) for diversity or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Hao Deng , Zhang Guo , Shuiping Gou , Bo Liu

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

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) leverages data augmentation techniques to produce contrasting views, enhancing the accuracy of recommendation systems through learning the consistency between contrastive views. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Chu Zhao , Enneng Yang , Yuliang Liang , Jianzhe Zhao , Guibing Guo , Xingwei Wang

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as a representative graph self-supervised method, achieving significant success. The currently prevalent optimization objective for GCL is InfoNCE. Typically, it employs augmentation techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yulan Hu , Sheng Ouyang , Jingyu Liu , Ge Chen , Zhirui Yang , Junchen Wan , Fuzheng Zhang , Zhongyuan Wang , Yong Liu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated promising results on exploiting node representations for many downstream tasks through supervised end-to-end training. To deal with the widespread label scarcity issue in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Cheng Wu , Chaokun Wang , Jingcao Xu , Ziyang Liu , Kai Zheng , Xiaowei Wang , Yang Song , Kun Gai

Graph neural network (GNN) is a powerful learning approach for graph-based recommender systems. Recently, GNNs integrated with contrastive learning have shown superior performance in recommendation with their data augmentation schemes,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Xuheng Cai , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Xubin Ren

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) is the most representative and prevalent self-supervised learning approach for graph-structured data. Despite its remarkable success, existing GCL methods highly rely on an augmentation scheme to learn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Haonan Wang , Jieyu Zhang , Qi Zhu , Wei Huang

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Yuzhou Chen , Jose Frias , Yulia R. Gel

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

Graph contrastive learning (GCL), as a popular approach to graph self-supervised learning, has recently achieved a non-negligible effect. To achieve superior performance, the majority of existing GCL methods elaborate on graph data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yuansheng Wang , Wangbin Sun , Kun Xu , Zulun Zhu , Liang Chen , Zibin Zheng

Contrastive Learning (CL) has emerged as a dominant technique for unsupervised representation learning which embeds augmented versions of the anchor close to each other (positive samples) and pushes the embeddings of other samples…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Jun Xia , Lirong Wu , Ge Wang , Jintao Chen , Stan Z. Li

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

With the prosperity of contrastive learning for visual representation learning (VCL), it is also adapted to the graph domain and yields promising performance. However, through a systematic study of various graph contrastive learning (GCL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Xiaojun Guo , Yifei Wang , Zeming Wei , Yisen Wang

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) is unsupervised graph representation learning that can obtain useful representation of unknown nodes. The node representation can be utilized as features of downstream tasks. However, GCL is vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Hiroya Kato , Kento Hasegawa , Seira Hidano , Kazuhide Fukushima

Graph contrastive learning (GCL), as an emerging self-supervised learning technique on graphs, aims to learn representations via instance discrimination. Its performance heavily relies on graph augmentation to reflect invariant patterns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Lu Lin , Jinghui Chen , Hongning Wang

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

The superiority of graph contrastive learning (GCL) has prompted its application to anomaly detection tasks for more powerful risk warning systems. Unfortunately, existing GCL-based models tend to excessively prioritize overall detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yiming Xu , Zhen Peng , Bin Shi , Xu Hua , Bo Dong , Song Wang , Chen Chen

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) aims to align the positive features while differentiating the negative features in the latent space by minimizing a pair-wise contrastive loss. As the embodiment of an outstanding discriminative unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jiangmeng Li , Yifan Jin , Hang Gao , Wenwen Qiang , Changwen Zheng , Fuchun Sun