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Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has recently made progress as an unsupervised graph representation learning paradigm. GCL approaches can be categorized into augmentation-based and augmentation-free methods. The former relies on complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yanan Zhao , Feng Ji , Kai Zhao , Xuhao Li , Qiyu Kang , Wenfei Liang , Yahya Alkhatib , Xingchao Jian , Wee Peng Tay

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

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

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) is an effective paradigm for node representation learning in graphs. The key components hidden behind GCL are data augmentation and positive-negative pair selection. Typical data augmentations in GCL, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Jiaqiang Zhang , Songcan Chen

The graph contrastive learning (GCL) framework has gained remarkable achievements in graph representation learning. However, similar to graph neural networks (GNNs), GCL models are susceptible to graph structural attacks. As an unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yulin Zhu , Xing Ai , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Kai Zhou

Graph contrastive learning (GCL), as a self-supervised learning method, can solve the problem of annotated data scarcity. It mines explicit features in unannotated graphs to generate favorable graph representations for downstream tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jinhuan Wang , Jiafei Shao , Zeyu Wang , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

Among different existing graph self-supervised learning strategies, graph contrastive learning (GCL) has been one of the most prevalent approaches to this problem. Despite the remarkable performance those GCL methods have achieved, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Qianlong Wen , Zhongyu Ouyang , Chunhui Zhang , Yiyue Qian , Yanfang Ye , Chuxu Zhang

Self-supervised learning (especially contrastive learning) methods on heterogeneous graphs can effectively get rid of the dependence on supervisory data. Meanwhile, most existing representation learning methods embed the heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Shichao Zhu , Chuan Zhou , Anfeng Cheng , Shirui Pan , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Bin Wang

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in the absence of task-specific labels. However, its scalability on large-scale graphs is hindered by the intensive message…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Xiang Chen , Kun Yue , Wenjie Liu , Zhenyu Zhang , Liang Duan

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) excels at managing noise and fluctuations in input data, making it popular in various fields (e.g., social networks, and knowledge graphs). Our study finds that the difference in high-frequency information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yuntao Shou , Xiangyong Cao , Deyu Meng

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 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

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) aims to contrast positive-negative counterparts to learn the node embeddings, whereas graph data augmentation methods are employed to generate these positive-negative samples. The variation, quantity, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Adnan Ali , Jinlong Li , Huanhuan Chen , Ali Kashif Bashir

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) is a widely adopted approach in self-supervised graph representation learning, applying contrastive objectives to produce effective representations. However, current GCL methods primarily focus on capturing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Dongxiao He , Yongqi Huang , Jitao Zhao , Xiaobao Wang , Zhen Wang

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) aims to self-supervised learn low-dimensional graph representations, primarily through instance discrimination, which involves manually mining positive and negative pairs from graphs, increasing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yongqi Huang , Jitao Zhao , Dongxiao He , Di Jin , Yuxiao Huang , Zhen Wang

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

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) is the most representative and prevalent self-supervised learning approach for graph-structured data. Despite its remarkable success, existing GCL methods highly rely on an augmentation scheme to learn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Haonan Wang , Jieyu Zhang , Qi Zhu , Wei Huang

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 contrastive learning (GCL) has become a powerful tool for learning graph data, but its scalability remains a significant challenge. In this work, we propose a simple yet effective training framework called Structural Compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Shengzhong Zhang , Wenjie Yang , Xinyuan Cao , Hongwei Zhang , Zengfeng Huang

We propose Graph Contrastive Learning (GraphCL), a general framework for learning node representations in a self supervised manner. GraphCL learns node embeddings by maximizing the similarity between the representations of two randomly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Hakim Hafidi , Mounir Ghogho , Philippe Ciblat , Ananthram Swami