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Graph-level representations are critical in various real-world applications, such as predicting the properties of molecules. But in practice, precise graph annotations are generally very expensive and time-consuming. To address this issue,…

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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

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL), learning the node representations by augmenting graphs, has attracted considerable attentions. Despite the proliferation of various graph augmentation strategies, some fundamental questions still remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Nian Liu , Xiao Wang , Deyu Bo , Chuan Shi , Jian Pei

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Junliang Yu , Hongzhi Yin , Xin Xia , Tong Chen , Lizhen Cui , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen

Graph neural network (GNN) is a powerful learning approach for graph-based recommender systems. Recently, GNNs integrated with contrastive learning have shown superior performance in recommendation with their data augmentation schemes,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Xuheng Cai , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Xubin Ren

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 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

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

This paper targets at improving the generalizability of hypergraph neural networks in the low-label regime, through applying the contrastive learning approach from images/graphs (we refer to it as HyperGCL). We focus on the following…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Tianxin Wei , Yuning You , Tianlong Chen , Yang Shen , Jingrui He , Zhangyang Wang

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

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

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as the foremost approach for self-supervised learning on graph-structured data. GCL reduces reliance on labeled data by learning robust representations from various augmented views. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Ruyue Liu , Rong Yin , Yong Liu , Xiaoshuai Hao , Haichao Shi , Can Ma , Weiping Wang

Contrastive learning has emerged as a premier method for learning representations with or without supervision. Recent studies have shown its utility in graph representation learning for pre-training. Despite successes, the understanding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Amur Ghose , Yingxue Zhang , Jianye Hao , Mark Coates

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has achieved remarkable success by following the computer vision paradigm of preserving absolute similarity between augmented views. However, this approach faces fundamental challenges in graphs due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zhiyuan Ning , Pengfei Wang , Ziyue Qiao , Pengyang Wang , Yuanchun Zhou

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

Graphs serve as versatile data structures in numerous real-world domains-including social networks, molecular biology, and knowledge graphs-by capturing intricate relational information among entities. Among graph-based learning techniques,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Chou-Ying Hsieh , Chun-Fu Jang , Cheng-En Hsieh , Qian-Hui Chen , Sy-Yen Kuo

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-based collaborative filtering has been established as a prominent approach in recommendation systems, leveraging the inherent graph topology of user-item interactions to model high-order connectivity patterns and enhance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Fan Huang , Wei Wang

Contrastive learning methods based on InfoNCE loss are popular in node representation learning tasks on graph-structured data. However, its reliance on data augmentation and its quadratic computational complexity might lead to inconsistency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Hengrui Zhang , Qitian Wu , Yu Wang , Shaofeng Zhang , Junchi Yan , Philip S. Yu

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…

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