Graph contrastive learning with implicit augmentations. 2023

Huidong Liang, and Xingjian Du, and Bilei Zhu, and Zejun Ma, and Ke Chen, and Junbin Gao
Discipline of Business Analytics, The University of Sydney Business School, The University of Sydney, Australia; ByteDance AI Lab, Shanghai, China. Electronic address: hlia0714@uni.sydney.edu.au.

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 characteristics, and choosing the optimal perturbing ratio for each dataset requires onerous manual tuning. In this paper, we introduce Implicit Graph Contrastive Learning (iGCL), which utilizes augmentations in the latent space learned from a Variational Graph Auto-Encoder by reconstructing graph topological structure. Importantly, instead of explicitly sampling augmentations from latent distributions, we further propose an upper bound for the expected contrastive loss to improve the efficiency of our learning algorithm. Thus, graph semantics can be preserved within the augmentations in an intelligent way without arbitrary manual design or prior human knowledge. Experimental results on both graph-level and node-level show that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on downstream classification tasks compared to other graph contrastive baselines, where ablation studies in the end demonstrate the effectiveness of modules in iGCL.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007360 Intelligence The ability to learn and to deal with new situations and to deal effectively with tasks involving abstractions.
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000465 Algorithms A procedure consisting of a sequence of algebraic formulas and/or logical steps to calculate or determine a given task. Algorithm
D012660 Semantics The relationships between symbols and their meanings. Semantic
D019359 Knowledge The body of truths or facts accumulated in the course of time, the cumulated sum of information, its volume and nature, in any civilization, period, or country. Epistemology

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