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Recent advancements in Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in improving graph representations. However, relying on predefined augmentations (e.g., node dropping, edge perturbation, attribute masking)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin , Shihao Ji , Esra Akbas

Graph contrastive learning (GCL), learning the node representation by contrasting two augmented graphs in a self-supervised way, has attracted considerable attention. GCL is usually believed to learn the invariant representation. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Yanhu Mo , Xiao Wang , Shaohua Fan , Chuan Shi

Graph representation learning is crucial for many real-world applications (e.g. social relation analysis). A fundamental problem for graph representation learning is how to effectively learn representations without human labeling, which is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Bolian Li , Baoyu Jing , Hanghang Tong

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) often suffers from false negatives, which degrades the performance on downstream tasks. The existing methods addressing the false negative issue usually rely on human prior knowledge, still leading GCL to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yiyang Zhao , Chengpei Wu , Lilin Zhang , Ning Yang

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) establishes a new paradigm for learning graph representations without human annotations. Although remarkable progress has been witnessed recently, the success behind GCL is still left somewhat mysterious. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yanqiao Zhu , Yichen Xu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has attracted a surge of attention due to its superior performance for learning node/graph representations without labels. However, in practice, the underlying class distribution of unlabeled nodes for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Liang Zeng , Lanqing Li , Ziqi Gao , Peilin Zhao , Jian Li

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

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a leading paradigm for self-supervised learning on graphs, with strong performance reported on standardized datasets and growing applications ranging from genomics to drug discovery. We ask a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Smayan Khanna , Doruk Efe Gökmen , Risi Kondor , Vincenzo Vitelli

Recently, heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a de facto model for analyzing HGs, while most of them rely on a relative large number of labeled data. In this work, we investigate Contrastive Learning (CL), a key component…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Yanqiao Zhu , Yichen Xu , Hejie Cui , Carl Yang , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu

Graph-level representations are critical in various real-world applications, such as predicting the properties of molecules. But in practice, precise graph annotations are generally very expensive and time-consuming. To address this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Shuai Lin , Pan Zhou , Zi-Yuan Hu , Shuojia Wang , Ruihui Zhao , Yefeng Zheng , Liang Lin , Eric Xing , Xiaodan Liang

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

By treating users' interactions as a user-item graph, graph learning models have been widely deployed in Collaborative Filtering(CF) based recommendation. Recently, researchers have introduced Graph Contrastive Learning(GCL) techniques into…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yonghui Yang , Zhengwei Wu , Le Wu , Kun Zhang , Richang Hong , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Meng Wang

As an important graph pre-training method, Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) continues to play a crucial role in the ongoing surge of research on graph foundation models or LLM as enhancer for graphs. Traditional GCL optimizes InfoNCE by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zixu Wang , Bingbing Xu , Yige Yuan , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has recently drawn much research interest for learning generalizable node representations in a self-supervised manner. In general, the contrastive learning process in GCL is performed on top of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Kaize Ding , Yancheng Wang , Yingzhen Yang , Huan 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

Contrastive learning is a significant paradigm in graph self-supervised learning. However, it requires negative samples to prevent model collapse and learn discriminative representations. These negative samples inevitably lead to heavy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Yunhui Liu , Huaisong Zhang , Tieke He , Tao Zheng , Jianhua Zhao

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has recently achieved substantial advancements. Existing GCL approaches compare two different ``views'' of the same graph in order to learn node/graph representations. The underlying assumption of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Gehang Zhang , Bowen Yu , Jiangxia Cao , Xinghua Zhang , Jiawei Sheng , Chuan Zhou , Tingwen Liu

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has been widely applied to text classification tasks due to its ability to generate self-supervised signals from unlabeled data, thus facilitating model training. However, existing GCL-based text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Wei Ai , Jianbin Li , Ze Wang , Jiayi Du , Tao Meng , Yuntao Shou , Keqin Li

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

Contrastive learning (CL) has emerged as a powerful framework for learning representations of images and text in a self-supervised manner while enhancing model robustness against adversarial attacks. More recently, researchers have extended…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Filippo Guerranti , Zinuo Yi , Anna Starovoit , Rafiq Kamel , Simon Geisler , Stephan Günnemann