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Graph representation learning has emerged as a cornerstone for tasks like node classification and link prediction, yet prevailing self-supervised learning (SSL) methods face challenges such as computational inefficiency, reliance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Srinitish Srinivasan , Omkumar CU

Self-supervised learning (SSL) for graph neural networks (GNNs) has attracted increasing attention from the graph machine learning community in recent years, owing to its capability to learn performant node embeddings without costly label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Qianlong Wen , Wenhao Yu , Neil Shah , Yanfang Ye , Chuxu Zhang

Graph self-supervised learning (SSL) is now a go-to method for pre-training graph foundation models (GFMs). There is a wide variety of knowledge patterns embedded in the graph data, such as node properties and clusters, which are crucial to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Ziwen Zhao , Yixin Su , Yuhua Li , Yixiong Zou , Ruixuan Li , Rui Zhang

Self-supervised Learning (SSL) aims at learning representations of objects without relying on manual labeling. Recently, a number of SSL methods for graph representation learning have achieved performance comparable to SOTA semi-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Zekarias T. Kefato , Sarunas Girdzijauskas , Hannes Stärk

Generative self-supervised learning (SSL), especially masked autoencoders, has become one of the most exciting learning paradigms and has shown great potential in handling graph data. However, real-world graphs are always heterogeneous,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Yijun Tian , Kaiwen Dong , Chunhui Zhang , Chuxu Zhang , Nitesh V. Chawla

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is effectively used for numerous classification problems, thanks to its ability to make use of abundant unlabeled data. The main assumption of various SSL algorithms is that the nearby points on the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Xuan Wu , Lingxiao Zhao , Leman Akoglu

Traditional Graph Self-Supervised Learning (GSSL) struggles to capture complex structural properties well. This limitation stems from two main factors: (1) the inadequacy of conventional Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in representing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Asiri Wijesinghe , Hao Zhu , Piotr Koniusz

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

Pretraining has become a standard technique in computer vision and natural language processing, which usually helps to improve performance substantially. Previously, the most dominant pretraining method is transfer learning (TL), which uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Xingyi Yang , Xuehai He , Yuxiao Liang , Yue Yang , Shanghang Zhang , Pengtao Xie

Self-supervised learning (SSL) enables label efficient training for machine learning models. This is essential for domains such as medical imaging, where labels are costly and time-consuming to curate. However, the most effective supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Cara Van Uden , Jeremy Irvin , Mars Huang , Nathan Dean , Jason Carr , Andrew Ng , Curtis Langlotz

Self-supervised learning (SSL), which aims to learn meaningful prior representations from unlabeled data, has been proven effective for skeleton-based action understanding. Different from the image domain, skeleton data possesses sparser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Jiahang Zhang , Lilang Lin , Shuai Yang , Jiaying Liu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) in graphs has garnered significant attention, particularly in employing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with pretext tasks initially designed for other domains, such as contrastive learning and feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Heesoo Jung , Hogun Park

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is crucial for real-world applications, especially in data-hungry domains such as healthcare and self-driving cars. In addition to a lack of labeled data, these applications also suffer from distributional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Ha Manh Bui , Iliana Maifeld-Carucci

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a desirable paradigm in computer vision due to the inability of supervised models to learn representations that can generalize in domains with limited labels. The recent popularity of SSL has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Romain Cosentino , Sarath Shekkizhar , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Salman Avestimehr , Antonio Ortega

Recent advancements in self-supervised learning (SSL) made it possible to learn generalizable visual representations from unlabeled data. The performance of Deep Learning models fine-tuned on pretrained SSL representations is on par with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Atharva Tendle , Mohammad Rashedul Hasan

Self-supervised learning has shown its promising capability in graph representation learning in recent work. Most existing pre-training strategies usually choose the popular Graph neural networks (GNNs), which can be seen as a special form…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yilin Ding , Zhen Liu , Hao Hao

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has become the de facto training paradigm of large models, where pre-training is followed by supervised fine-tuning using domain-specific data and labels. Despite demonstrating comparable performance with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Sofia Yfantidou , Dimitris Spathis , Marios Constantinides , Athena Vakali , Daniele Quercia , Fahim Kawsar

Machine learning on graphs has made substantial progress across domains such as molecular property prediction and chip design. Yet benchmarking practices remain fragmented, often relying on narrow, task-specific datasets and inconsistent…

Self supervised learning (SSL) is a machine learning paradigm where models learn to understand the underlying structure of data without explicit supervision from labeled samples. The acquired representations from SSL have demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yunshan Duan , Sinead Williamson

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the de facto standard for representation learning on graphs, owing to their ability to effectively integrate graph topology and node attributes. However, the inherent suboptimal nature of node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zhiyao Zhou , Sheng Zhou , Bochao Mao , Xuanyi Zhou , Jiawei Chen , Qiaoyu Tan , Daochen Zha , Yan Feng , Chun Chen , Can Wang