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Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has shown promising performance in graph representation learning (GRL) without the supervision of manual annotations. GCL can generate graph-level embeddings by maximizing the Mutual Information (MI) between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Jiawei Sun , Ruoxin Chen , Jie Li , Chentao Wu , Yue Ding , Junchi Yan

Recommender systems are widely deployed in various web environments, and self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently attracted significant attention in this field. Contrastive learning (CL) stands out as a major SSL paradigm due to its…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Yu Zhang , Lei Sang , Yi Zhang , Yiwen Zhang , Yun Yang

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a popular training approach for learning node embeddings from augmented graphs without labels. Despite the key principle that maximizing the similarity between positive node pairs while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yue Yu , Xiao Wang , Mengmei Zhang , Nian Liu , Chuan Shi

Contrastive learning (CL) has emerged as a promising technique for improving recommender systems, addressing the challenge of data sparsity by using self-supervised signals from raw data. Integration of CL with graph convolutional network…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Jeongwhan Choi , Hyowon Wi , Chaejeong Lee , Sung-Bae Cho , Dongha Lee , Noseong Park

Existing graph contrastive learning (GCL) techniques typically require two forward passes for a single instance to construct the contrastive loss, which is effective for capturing the low-frequency signals of node features. Such a dual-pass…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Haonan Wang , Jieyu Zhang , Qi Zhu , Wei Huang , Kenji Kawaguchi , Xiaokui Xiao

Recent advances in unsupervised deep graph clustering have been significantly promoted by contrastive learning. Despite the strides, most graph contrastive learning models face challenges: 1) graph augmentation is used to improve learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Chusheng Zeng , Bocheng Wang , Jinghui Yuan , Rong Wang , Mulin Chen

Contrastive learning (CL) has recently been demonstrated critical in improving recommendation performance. The underlying principle of CL-based recommendation models is to ensure the consistency between representations derived from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Junliang Yu , Xin Xia , Tong Chen , Lizhen Cui , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung , Hongzhi Yin

Graph-based collaborative filtering has been established as a prominent approach in recommendation systems, leveraging the inherent graph topology of user-item interactions to model high-order connectivity patterns and enhance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Fan Huang , Wei Wang

Recently, some contrastive learning methods have been proposed to simultaneously learn representations and clustering assignments, achieving significant improvements. However, these methods do not take the category information and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Huasong Zhong , Jianlong Wu , Chong Chen , Jianqiang Huang , Minghua Deng , Liqiang Nie , Zhouchen Lin , Xian-Sheng Hua

Graph contrastive learning is usually performed by first conducting Graph Data Augmentation (GDA) and then employing a contrastive learning pipeline to train GNNs. As we know that GDA is an important issue for graph contrastive learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Ziyan Zhang , Bo Jiang , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

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 contrastive learning algorithms have demonstrated remarkable success in various applications such as node classification, link prediction, and graph clustering. However, in unsupervised graph contrastive learning, some contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Kaili Ma , Haochen Yang , Han Yang , Yongqiang Chen , James Cheng

Unsupervised graph representation learning is a non-trivial topic. The success of contrastive methods in the unsupervised representation learning on structured data inspires similar attempts on the graph. Existing graph contrastive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Tianyu Zhang , Yuxiang Ren , Wenzheng Feng , Weitao Du , Xuecang Zhang

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) emerges as the most representative approach for graph representation learning, which leverages the principle of maximizing mutual information (InfoMax) to learn node representations applied in downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yige Yuan , Bingbing Xu , Huawei Shen , Qi Cao , Keting Cen , Wen Zheng , Xueqi Cheng

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as a dominant technique for graph representation learning which maximizes the mutual information between paired graph augmentations that share the same semantics. Unfortunately, it is difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jun Xia , Lirong Wu , Jintao Chen , Bozhen Hu , Stan Z. Li

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as a promising approach to enhance graph neural networks' (GNNs) ability to learn rich representations from unlabeled graph-structured data. However, current GCL models face challenges with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yujia Wu , Junyi Mo , Elynn Chen , Yuzhou Chen

This paper targets at improving the generalizability of hypergraph neural networks in the low-label regime, through applying the contrastive learning approach from images/graphs (we refer to it as HyperGCL). We focus on the following…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Tianxin Wei , Yuning You , Tianlong Chen , Yang Shen , Jingrui He , Zhangyang Wang

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) aligns node representations by classifying node pairs into positives and negatives using a selection process that typically relies on establishing correspondences within two augmented graphs. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Maysam Behmanesh , Maks Ovsjanikov

Graph augmentation with contrastive learning has gained significant attention in the field of recommendation systems due to its ability to learn expressive user representations, even when labeled data is limited. However, directly applying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Qianru Zhang , Lianghao Xia , Xuheng Cai , Siuming Yiu , Chao Huang , Christian S. Jensen