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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received extensive research attention due to their powerful information aggregation capabilities. Despite the success of GNNs, most of them suffer from the popularity bias issue in a graph caused by a small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Yuntao Shou , Haozhi Lan , Xiangyong Cao

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

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

Representation learning methods utilizing the InfoNCE loss have demonstrated considerable capacity in reducing human annotation effort by training invariant neural feature extractors. Although different variants of the training objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Hanyang Chen , Yanchao Yang

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) has demonstrated promising results for recommender systems, as they can effectively leverage high-order relationship. However, these methods usually encounter data sparsity issue in real-world scenarios.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Qian Zhao , Zhengwei Wu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou

Contrastive learning relies on an assumption that positive pairs contain related views, e.g., patches of an image or co-occurring multimodal signals of a video, that share certain underlying information about an instance. But what if this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Ching-Yao Chuang , R Devon Hjelm , Xin Wang , Vibhav Vineet , Neel Joshi , Antonio Torralba , Stefanie Jegelka , Yale Song

Attributed graph clustering or community detection which learns to cluster the nodes of a graph is a challenging task in graph analysis. In this paper, we introduce a contrastive learning framework for learning clustering-friendly node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Maedeh Ahmadi , Mehran Safayani , Abdolreza Mirzaei

Graph contrastive learning has achieved great success in pre-training graph neural networks without ground-truth labels. Leading graph contrastive learning follows the classical scheme of contrastive learning, forcing model to identify the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Junran Wu , Xueyuan Chen , Shangzhe Li

Micro-video recommender systems suffer from the ubiquitous noises in users' behaviors, which might render the learned user representation indiscriminating, and lead to trivial recommendations (e.g., popular items) or even weird ones that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Shengyu Zhang , Bofang Li , Dong Yao , Fuli Feng , Jieming Zhu , Wenyan Fan , Zhou Zhao , Xiaofei He , Tat-seng Chua , Fei Wu

Multimedia recommendations aim to use rich multimedia content to enhance historical user-item interaction information, which can not only indicate the content relatedness among items but also reveal finer-grained preferences of users. In…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xian Mo , Fei Liu , Rui Tang , Jintao , Gao , Hao Liu

Recently, contrastive learning has achieved great results in self-supervised learning, where the main idea is to push two augmentations of an image (positive pairs) closer compared to other random images (negative pairs). We argue that not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Ajinkya Tejankar , Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani , Vipin Pillai , Paolo Favaro , Hamed Pirsiavash

Recommender systems are designed to learn user preferences from observed feedback and comprise many fundamental tasks, such as rating prediction and post-click conversion rate (pCVR) prediction. However, the observed feedback usually suffer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Jun Wang , Haoxuan Li , Chi Zhang , Dongxu Liang , Enyun Yu , Wenwu Ou , Wenjia Wang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to transfer knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model. While contrastive learning has shown promise in self-supervised learning by creating discriminative representations, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

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

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

Model agnostic meta-learning algorithms aim to infer priors from several observed tasks that can then be used to adapt to a new task with few examples. Given the inherent diversity of tasks arising in existing benchmarks, recent methods use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Rakshith Subramanyam , Mark Heimann , Jayram Thathachar , Rushil Anirudh , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have been utilized as useful side information to improve recommendation quality. In those recommender systems, knowledge graph information often contains fruitful facts and inherent semantic relatedness among items.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Yuhao Yang , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Chenliang Li

In the era of rapid development of social media, social recommendation systems as hybrid recommendation systems have been widely applied. Existing methods capture interest similarity between users to filter out interest-irrelevant relations…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yuqin Lan , Weihao Shen , Yuanze Hu , Qingchen Yu , Zhaoxin Fan , Faguo Wu , Laurence T. Yang

Graph representation learning plays a vital role in processing graph-structured data. However, prior arts on graph representation learning heavily rely on labeling information. To overcome this problem, inspired by the recent success of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Ming Jin , Yizhen Zheng , Yuan-Fang Li , Chen Gong , Chuan Zhou , Shirui Pan

Personalized search ranking systems are critical for driving engagement and revenue in modern e-commerce and short-video platforms. While existing methods excel at estimating users' broad interests based on the filtered historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Qinyao Li , Xiaoyang Zheng , Qihang Zhao , Ke Xu , Zhongbo Sun , Chao Wang , Chenyi Lei , Han Li , Wenwu Ou