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Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a prominent framework for unsupervised graph representation learning. However, relying on augmentation design alone to define the invariances learned by GCL can be brittle under structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Mengyang Zhao , Longlong Li , Cunquan Qu

Existing graph contrastive learning methods rely on augmentation techniques based on random perturbations (e.g., randomly adding or dropping edges and nodes). Nevertheless, altering certain edges or nodes can unexpectedly change the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Huidong Liang , Xingjian Du , Bilei Zhu , Zejun Ma , Ke Chen , Junbin Gao

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

Generalizable, transferrable, and robust representation learning on graph-structured data remains a challenge for current graph neural networks (GNNs). Unlike what has been developed for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Yuning You , Tianlong Chen , Yongduo Sui , Ting Chen , Zhangyang Wang , Yang Shen

Incorporating Knowledge Graphs (KG) into recommeder system has attracted considerable attention. Recently, the technical trend of Knowledge-aware Recommendation (KGR) is to develop end-to-end models based on graph neural networks (GNNs).…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Ding Zou , Wei Wei , Ziyang Wang , Xian-Ling Mao , Feida Zhu , Rui Fang , Dangyang Chen

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

Leading graph contrastive learning (GCL) methods perform graph augmentations in two fashions: (1) randomly corrupting the anchor graph, which could cause the loss of semantic information, or (2) using domain knowledge to maintain salient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Sihang Li , Xiang Wang , An zhang , Yingxin Wu , Xiangnan He , Tat-Seng Chua

Contrastive Learning (CL) performances as a rising approach to address the challenge of sparse and noisy recommendation data. Although having achieved promising results, most existing CL methods only perform either hand-crafted data or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Xiuyuan Qin , Huanhuan Yuan , Pengpeng Zhao , Junhua Fang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Guanfeng Liu , Victor Sheng

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has recently emerged as a promising approach for graph representation learning. Some existing methods adopt the 1-vs-K scheme to construct one positive and K negative samples for each graph, but it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Minjie Chen , Yao Cheng , Ye Wang , Xiang Li , Ming Gao

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

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has become a central paradigm for self-supervised representation learning in computational intelligence, with applications spanning recommendation, anomaly detection, and personalization. A key limitation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Adnan Ali , Jinlong Li , Syed Muhammad Israr , Ali Kashif Bashir

Anomaly detection aims at identifying deviant samples from the normal data distribution. Contrastive learning has provided a successful way to sample representation that enables effective discrimination on anomalies. However, when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Gaoang Wang , Yibing Zhan , Xinchao Wang , Mingli Song , Klara Nahrstedt

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) relies on semantically consistent graph augmentations, but common local perturbations provide limited control over global structural consistency, motivating a more principled global augmentation strategy. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Nero Z. Li , Xuehao Zhai , Zhichao Shi , Boshen Shi , Xuhui Jiang

With the outbreak of today's streaming data, the sequential recommendation is a promising solution to achieve time-aware personalized modeling. It aims to infer the next interacted item of a given user based on the historical item sequence.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Guanyu Lin , Chen Gao , Yinfeng Li , Yu Zheng , Zhiheng Li , Depeng Jin , Dong Li , Jianye Hao , Yong Li

The top-k recommendation is a fundamental task in recommendation systems which is generally learned by comparing positive and negative pairs. The Contrastive Loss (CL) is the key in contrastive learning that has received more attention…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Hao Tang , Guoshuai Zhao , Yuxia Wu , Xueming Qian

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

Matrix completion is a widely adopted framework in recommender systems, as predicting the missing entries in the user-item rating matrix enables a comprehensive understanding of user preferences. However, current graph neural network…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Narges Nemati , Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

A well-designed recommender system can accurately capture the attributes of users and items, reflecting the unique preferences of individuals. Traditional recommendation techniques usually focus on modeling the singular type of behaviors…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Hongrui Xuan , Yi Liu , Bohan Li , Hongzhi Yin

In recent years, deep learning on graphs has achieved remarkable success in various domains. However, the reliance on annotated graph data remains a significant bottleneck due to its prohibitive cost and time-intensive nature. To address…

Graph-based recommendation systems use higher-order user and item embeddings for next-item predictions. Dynamically adding collaborative signals from neighbors helps to use similar users' preferences during learning. While item-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Anushka Tiwari , Haimonti Dutta , Shahrzad Khanizadeh