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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…

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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…

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Graph contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful technique for learning graph representations that are robust and discriminative. However, traditional approaches often neglect the critical role of subgraph structures, particularly the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Tianhao Peng , Xuhong Li , Haitao Yuan , Yuchen Li , Haoyi Xiong

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) is a powerful self-supervised learning framework that performs data augmentation through graph perturbations, with growing applications in the analysis of biological networks such as Gene Regulatory Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Sho Oshima , Yuji Okamoto , Taisei Tosaki , Ryosuke Kojima

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has become a hot topic in the field of graph representation learning. In contrast to traditional supervised learning relying on a large number of labels, GCL exploits augmentation strategies to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jianqing Liang , Xinkai Wei , Min Chen , Zhiqiang Wang , Jiye Liang

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

Graph contrastive learning (CL) methods learn node representations in a self-supervised manner by maximizing the similarity between the augmented node representations obtained via a GNN-based encoder. However, CL methods perform poorly on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Wenhan Yang , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Graph augmentation has received great attention in recent years for graph contrastive learning (GCL) to learn well-generalized node/graph representations. However, mainstream GCL methods often favor randomly disrupting graphs for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Shiyin Tan , Dongyuan Li , Renhe Jiang , Ying Zhang , Manabu Okumura

Graph recommender (GR) is a type of graph neural network (GNNs) encoder that is customized for extracting information from the user-item interaction graph. Due to its strong performance on the recommendation task, GR has gained significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Wenjie Yang , Shengzhong Zhang , Jiaxing Guo , Zengfeng Huang

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a powerful tool for extracting consistent representations from graphs, independent of labeled information. However, existing methods predominantly focus on undirected graphs, disregarding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Daohan Su , Yang Zhang , Xunkai Li , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

Graph representation learning has emerged as a powerful tool for preserving graph topology when mapping nodes to vector representations, enabling various downstream tasks such as node classification and community detection. However, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Kaizhe Fan , Quanjun Li

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 (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…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful learning methods for recommender systems owing to their robustness in handling complicated user-item interactions. Recently, the integration of contrastive learning with GNNs has demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Junfeng Long , Hao Wu

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 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

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has garnered significant attention recently since it learns complex structural information from graphs through self-supervised learning manner. However, prevalent GCL models may suffer from performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Xiaofan Wei , Binyan Zhang

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…

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Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) seeks to learn nodal or graph representations that contain maximal consistent information from graph-structured data. While node-level contrasting modes are dominating, some efforts commence to explore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Zhenhao Zhao , Minhong Zhu , Chen Wang , Sijia Wang , Jiqiang Zhang , Li Chen , Weiran Cai

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a promising approach in the realm of graph self-supervised learning. Prevailing GCL methods mainly derive from the principles of contrastive learning in the field of computer vision: modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zhiyuan Ning , Pengfei Wang , Pengyang Wang , Ziyue Qiao , Wei Fan , Denghui Zhang , Yi Du , Yuanchun Zhou