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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in graph-structured data computation, showing promising performance in various applications such as node classification, link prediction, and network recommendation. Existing works mainly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Houyi Li , Zhihong Chen , Zhao Li , Qinkai Zheng , Peng Zhang , Shuigeng Zhou

Node representation learning has demonstrated its efficacy for various applications on graphs, which leads to increasing attention towards the area. However, fairness is a largely under-explored territory within the field, which may lead to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-24 O. Deniz Kose , Yanning Shen

Recent works explore learning graph representations in a self-supervised manner. In graph contrastive learning, benchmark methods apply various graph augmentation approaches. However, most of the augmentation methods are non-learnable,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Hang Gao , Jiangmeng Li , Wenwen Qiang , Lingyu Si , Fuchun Sun , Changwen Zheng

Inspired by the success of contrastive learning (CL) in computer vision and natural language processing, graph contrastive learning (GCL) has been developed to learn discriminative node representations on graph datasets. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Zehong Wang , Qi Li , Donghua Yu , Xiaolong Han , Xiao-Zhi Gao , Shigen Shen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated promising results on exploiting node representations for many downstream tasks through supervised end-to-end training. To deal with the widespread label scarcity issue in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Cheng Wu , Chaokun Wang , Jingcao Xu , Ziyang Liu , Kai Zheng , Xiaowei Wang , Yang Song , Kun Gai

Data augmentation has been widely used to improve generalizability of machine learning models. However, comparatively little work studies data augmentation for graphs. This is largely due to the complex, non-Euclidean structure of graphs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Tong Zhao , Yozen Liu , Leonardo Neves , Oliver Woodford , Meng Jiang , Neil Shah

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as a pivotal technique in the domain of graph representation learning. A crucial aspect of effective GCL is the caliber of generated positive and negative samples, which is intrinsically dictated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Xinjian Zhao , Liang Zhang , Yang Liu , Ruocheng Guo , Xiangyu Zhao

Node classification in graphs aims to predict the categories of unlabeled nodes by utilizing a small set of labeled nodes. However, weighted graphs often contain noisy edges and anomalous edge weights, which can distort fine-grained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Tingting Wang , Jiaxin Su , Haobing Liu , Ruobing Jiang

In recent years, graph contrastive learning (GCL) has received increasing attention in recommender systems due to its effectiveness in reducing bias caused by data sparsity. However, most existing GCL models rely on heuristic approaches and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiakai Tang , Sunhao Dai , Zexu Sun , Xu Chen , Jun Xu , Wenhui Yu , Lantao Hu , Peng Jiang , Han Li

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) has recently emerged as a promising graph self-supervised learning framework for learning discriminative node representations without labels. The widely adopted objective function of GCL benefits from two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yunhui Liu , Tieke He , Tao Zheng , Jianhua Zhao

Despite recent success, most contrastive self-supervised learning methods are domain-specific, relying heavily on data augmentation techniques that require knowledge about a particular domain, such as image cropping and rotation. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Vikas Verma , Minh-Thang Luong , Kenji Kawaguchi , Hieu Pham , Quoc V. Le

Pseudo labeling (PL) is a wide-applied strategy to enlarge the labeled dataset by self-annotating the potential samples during the training process. Several works have shown that it can improve the graph learning model performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Botao Wang , Jia Li , Yang Liu , Jiashun Cheng , Yu Rong , Wenjia Wang , Fugee Tsung

Machine learning models are prone to capturing the spurious correlations between non-causal attributes and classes, with counterfactual data augmentation being a promising direction for breaking these spurious associations. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Xiaoling Zhou , Ou Wu , Michael K. Ng

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become popular in Graph Representation Learning (GRL). One fundamental application is few-shot node classification. Most existing methods follow the meta learning paradigm, showing the ability of fast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Hao Liu , Jiarui Feng , Lecheng Kong , Dacheng Tao , Yixin Chen , Muhan Zhang

Graph contrastive learning defines a contrastive task to pull similar instances close and push dissimilar instances away. It learns discriminative node embeddings without supervised labels, which has aroused increasing attention in the past…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Lin Shu , Chuan Chen , Zibin Zheng

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved promising results for semi-supervised learning tasks on graphs such as node classification. Despite the great success of GNNs, many real-world graphs are often sparsely and noisily labeled, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Enyan Dai , Charu Aggarwal , Suhang Wang

Graph representation learning, involving both node features and graph structures, is crucial for real-world applications but often encounters pervasive noise. State-of-the-art methods typically address noise by focusing separately on node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Guangxin Su , Yifan Zhu , Wenjie Zhang , Hanchen Wang , Ying Zhang

Brain networks/graphs derived from resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) help study underlying pathophysiology of neurocognitive disorders by measuring neuronal activities in the brain. Some studies utilize learning-based methods for brain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Qianqian Wang , Wei Wang , Yuqi Fang , Hong-Jun Li , Andrea Bozoki , Mingxia Liu

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