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Heterogeneous graph neural network (HGNN) is a very popular technique for the modeling and analysis of heterogeneous graphs. Most existing HGNN-based approaches are supervised or semi-supervised learning methods requiring graphs to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Cuiying Huo , Dongxiao He , Yawen Li , Di Jin , Jianwu Dang , Weixiong Zhang , Witold Pedrycz , Lingfei Wu

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

Traditional Graph Neural Network (GNN), as a graph representation learning method, is constrained by label information. However, Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) methods, which tackle the label problem effectively, mainly focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Kai Yang , Yuan Liu , Zijuan Zhao , Peijin Ding , Wenqian Zhao

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL), learning the node representations by augmenting graphs, has attracted considerable attentions. Despite the proliferation of various graph augmentation strategies, some fundamental questions still remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Nian Liu , Xiao Wang , Deyu Bo , Chuan Shi , Jian Pei

Among different existing graph self-supervised learning strategies, graph contrastive learning (GCL) has been one of the most prevalent approaches to this problem. Despite the remarkable performance those GCL methods have achieved, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Qianlong Wen , Zhongyu Ouyang , Chunhui Zhang , Yiyue Qian , Yanfang Ye , Chuxu Zhang

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has proven highly effective in promoting the performance of Semi-Supervised Node Classification (SSNC). However, existing GCL methods are generally transferred from other fields like CV or NLP, whose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Deli Chen , Yankai Lin , Lei Li , Xuancheng Ren , Peng Li , Jie Zhou , Xu Sun

Recent years have seen a rapid growth of utilizing graph neural networks (GNNs) in the biomedical domain for tackling drug-related problems. However, like any other deep architectures, GNNs are data hungry. While requiring labels in real…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Mengying Sun , Jing Xing , Huijun Wang , Bin Chen , Jiayu Zhou

This paper focuses on learning representation on the whole graph level in an unsupervised manner. Learning graph-level representation plays an important role in a variety of real-world issues such as molecule property prediction, protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Ge Wang , Zelin Zang , Jiangbin Zheng , Jun Xia , Stan Z. Li

Self-supervised learning (SSL) on graphs generates node and graph representations (i.e., embeddings) that can be used for downstream tasks such as node classification, node clustering, and link prediction. Graph SSL is particularly useful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jiali Chen , Avijit Mukherjee

Graph contrastive learning has become a powerful technique for several graph mining tasks. It learns discriminative representation from different perspectives of augmented graphs. Ubiquitous in our daily life, singed-directed graphs are the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Taewook Ko , Yoonhyuk Choi , Chong-Kwon Kim

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 (GCL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in the absence of task-specific labels. However, its scalability on large-scale graphs is hindered by the intensive message…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Xiang Chen , Kun Yue , Wenjie Liu , Zhenyu Zhang , Liang Duan

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) alleviates the heavy reliance on label information for graph representation learning (GRL) via self-supervised learning schemes. The core idea is to learn by maximising mutual information for similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yizhen Zheng , Shirui Pan , Vincent Cs Lee , Yu Zheng , Philip S. Yu

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) aims to learn discriminative semantic invariance by contrasting different views of the same graph that share critical topological patterns. However, existing GCL approaches with structural augmentations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Qirui Ji , Bin Qin , Yifan Jin , Yunze Zhao , Chuxiong Sun , Changwen Zheng , Jianwen Cao , Jiangmeng Li

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

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has shown strong promise for unsupervised graph representation learning, yet its effectiveness on heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes often belong to different classes, remains limited. Most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yanan Zhao , Feng Ji , Jingyang Dai , Jiaze Ma , Wee Peng Tay

Graph representation learning is fundamental for analyzing graph-structured data. Exploring invariant graph representations remains a challenge for most existing graph representation learning methods. In this paper, we propose a cross-view…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jie Chen , Hua Mao , Wai Lok Woo , Chuanbin Liu , Xi Peng

Recently many efforts have been devoted to applying graph neural networks (GNNs) to molecular property prediction which is a fundamental task for computational drug and material discovery. One of major obstacles to hinder the successful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Shuangli Li , Jingbo Zhou , Tong Xu , Dejing Dou , Hui Xiong

Heterogeneous Graphs (HGs) effectively model complex relationships in the real world through multi-type nodes and edges. In recent years, inspired by self-supervised learning (SSL), contrastive learning (CL)-based Heterogeneous Graphs…

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