Although augmentations (e.g., perturbation of graph edges, image crops) boost the efficiency of Contrastive Learning (CL), feature level augmentation is another plausible, complementary yet not well researched strategy. Thus, we present a novel spectral feature argumentation for contrastive learning on graphs (and images). To this end, for each data view, we estimate a low-rank approximation per feature map and subtract that approximation from the map to obtain its complement. This is achieved by the proposed herein incomplete power iteration, a non-standard power iteration regime which enjoys two valuable byproducts (under mere one or two iterations): (i) it partially balances spectrum of the feature map, and (ii) it injects the noise into rebalanced singular values of the feature map (spectral augmentation). For two views, we align these rebalanced feature maps as such an improved alignment step can focus more on less dominant singular values of matrices of both views, whereas the spectral augmentation does not affect the spectral angle alignment (singular vectors are not perturbed). We derive the analytical form for: (i) the incomplete power iteration to capture its spectrum-balancing effect, and (ii) the variance of singular values augmented implicitly by the noise. We also show that the spectral augmentation improves the generalization bound. Experiments on graph/image datasets show that our spectral feature augmentation outperforms baselines, and is complementary with other augmentation strategies and compatible with various contrastive losses.

图对比度学习（GCL）改善了图表的学习，从而导致SOTA在各种下游任务上。图扩大步骤是GCL的重要但几乎没有研究的步骤。在本文中，我们表明，通过图表增强获得的节点嵌入是高度偏差的，在某种程度上限制了从学习下游任务的学习区分特征的对比模型。隐藏功能（功能增强）。受到所谓矩阵草图的启发，我们提出了Costa，这是GCL的一种新颖的协变功能空间增强框架，该框架通过维护原始功能的``好草图''来生成增强功能。为了强调Costa的特征增强功能的优势，我们研究了一个保存记忆和计算的单视图设置（除了多视图ONE）。我们表明，与基于图的模型相比，带有Costa的功能增强功能可比较/更好。

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 and inefficiency problems. To mitigate these limitations, in this paper, we introduce a simple yet effective contrastive model named Localized Graph Contrastive Learning (Local-GCL in short). Local-GCL consists of two key designs: 1) We fabricate the positive examples for each node directly using its first-order neighbors, which frees our method from the reliance on carefully-designed graph augmentations; 2) To improve the efficiency of contrastive learning on graphs, we devise a kernelized contrastive loss, which could be approximately computed in linear time and space complexity with respect to the graph size. We provide theoretical analysis to justify the effectiveness and rationality of the proposed methods. Experiments on various datasets with different scales and properties demonstrate that in spite of its simplicity, Local-GCL achieves quite competitive performance in self-supervised node representation learning tasks on graphs with various scales and properties.

对比学习在各种自我监督的学习任务中取得了最先进的表现，甚至优于其监督的对应物。尽管其经验成功，但对为什么对比学习作品的理论认识仍然有限。在本文中，（i）我们证明，对比学习胜过AutoEncoder，一种经典无监督的学习方法，适用于特征恢复和下游任务;（ii）我们还说明标记数据在监督对比度学习中的作用。这为最近的发现提供了理论支持，即对标签对比学习的结果提高了域名下游任务中学识表的表现，但它可能会损害转移学习的性能。我们通过数值实验验证了我们的理论。

Contrastive learning (CL), which can extract the information shared between different contrastive views, has become a popular paradigm for vision representation learning. Inspired by the success in computer vision, recent work introduces CL into graph modeling, dubbed as graph contrastive learning (GCL). However, generating contrastive views in graphs is more challenging than that in images, since we have little prior knowledge on how to significantly augment a graph without changing its labels. We argue that typical data augmentation techniques (e.g., edge dropping) in GCL cannot generate diverse enough contrastive views to filter out noises. Moreover, previous GCL methods employ two view encoders with exactly the same neural architecture and tied parameters, which further harms the diversity of augmented views. To address this limitation, we propose a novel paradigm named model augmented GCL (MA-GCL), which will focus on manipulating the architectures of view encoders instead of perturbing graph inputs. Specifically, we present three easy-to-implement model augmentation tricks for GCL, namely asymmetric, random and shuffling, which can respectively help alleviate high- frequency noises, enrich training instances and bring safer augmentations. All three tricks are compatible with typical data augmentations. Experimental results show that MA-GCL can achieve state-of-the-art performance on node classification benchmarks by applying the three tricks on a simple base model. Extensive studies also validate our motivation and the effectiveness of each trick. (Code, data and appendix are available at https://github.com/GXM1141/MA-GCL. )

自我监督的学习（SSL）推测，投入和成对的积极关系足以学习有意义的表示。尽管SSL最近达到了一个里程碑：在许多模式下，胜过监督的方法\点，理论基础是有限的，特定于方法的，并且未能向从业者提供原则上的设计指南。在本文中，我们提出了一个统一的框架，这些框架是在光谱歧管学习的掌舵下，以解决这些局限性。通过这项研究的过程，我们将严格证明Vic​​reg，Simclr，Barlowtwins等。对应于诸如Laplacian eigenmaps，多维缩放等方面的同名光谱方法。然后，此统一将使我们能够获得（i）每种方法的闭合形式的最佳表示，（ii）每种方法的线性态度中的封闭形式的最佳网络参数，（iii）在期间使用的成对关系的影响对每个数量和下游任务性能的培训，以及最重要的是，（iv）分别针对全球和局部光谱嵌入方法的对比度和非对抗性方法之间的第一个理论桥梁，暗示了每种方法的益处和限制。例如，（i）如果成对关系与下游任务一致，则可以成功采用任何SSL方法并将恢复监督方法，但是在低数据状态下，Vicreg的不变性超参数应该很高； （ii）如果成对关系与下游任务未对准，则与SIMCLR或BARLOWTWINS相比，具有小型不变性高参数的VICREG。

自我监督学习中的最新作品通过依靠对比度学习范式来推动最先进的工作，该范式通过推动正面对或从同一班级中的类似示例来学习表示形式，同时将负面对截然不同。尽管取得了经验的成功，但理论基础是有限的 - 先前的分析假设鉴于同一类标签的正对有条件独立性，但是最近的经验应用使用了密切相关的正对（即同一图像的数据增强）。我们的工作分析了对比度学习，而无需在数据上使用增强图的新概念假设正对的有条件独立性。此图中的边缘连接相同数据的增强，而地面实际类别自然形成了连接的子图。我们提出了在人口增强图上执行光谱分解的损失，并且可以简洁地作为对神经净表示的对比学习目标。最小化此目标会导致在线性探针评估下具有可证明准确性的功能。通过标准的概括范围，在最大程度地减少训练对比度损失时，这些准确性也可以保证。从经验上讲，我们目标所学的功能可以匹配或胜过基准视觉数据集上的几个强基线。总的来说，这项工作为对比度学习提供了首次可证明的分析，在该学习中，线性探针评估的保证可以适用于现实的经验环境。

尽管有关超图的机器学习吸引了很大的关注，但大多数作品都集中在（半）监督的学习上，这可能会导致繁重的标签成本和不良的概括。最近，对比学习已成为一种成功的无监督表示学习方法。尽管其他领域中对比度学习的发展繁荣，但对超图的对比学习仍然很少探索。在本文中，我们提出了Tricon（三个方向对比度学习），这是对超图的对比度学习的一般框架。它的主要思想是三个方向对比度，具体来说，它旨在在两个增强视图中最大化同一节点之间的协议（a），（b）在同一节点之间以及（c）之间，每个组之间的成员及其成员之间的协议（b） 。加上简单但令人惊讶的有效数据增强和负抽样方案，这三种形式的对比使Tricon能够在节点嵌入中捕获显微镜和介观结构信息。我们使用13种基线方法，5个数据集和两个任务进行了广泛的实验，这证明了Tricon的有效性，最明显的是，Tricon始终优于无监督的竞争对手，而且（半）受监督的竞争对手，大多数是由大量的节点分类的大量差额。

最近已证明自我监督的对比学习（CL）非常有效地防止深网贴上嘈杂的标签。尽管取得了经验成功，但对对比度学习对增强鲁棒性的影响的理论理解非常有限。在这项工作中，我们严格地证明，通过对比度学习学到的表示矩阵可以通过：（i）与数据中每个子类相对应的一个突出的奇异值来增强鲁棒性，并显着较小的剩余奇异值； （ii）{{显着的单数矢量与每个子类的干净标签之间的一个很大的对齐。以上属性使对此类表示的线性层能够有效地学习干净的标签，而不会过度适应噪音。}我们进一步表明，通过对比度学习预先训练的深网的雅各比式的低级别结构使他们能够获得优越的最初的性能是在嘈杂的标签上进行微调时。最后，我们证明了对比度学习提供的最初鲁棒性使鲁棒训练方法能够在极端噪声水平下实现最先进的性能，例如平均27.18 \％\％和15.58 \％\％\％\％\％cifar-10上的提高和80 \％对称嘈杂标签的CIFAR-100，网络视频的准确性提高4.11 \％。

对比度学习是图表学习中的有效无监督方法，对比度学习的关键组成部分在于构建正和负样本。以前的方法通常利用图中节点的接近度作为原理。最近，基于数据增强的对比度学习方法已进步以显示视觉域中的强大力量，一些作品将此方法从图像扩展到图形。但是，与图像上的数据扩展不同，图上的数据扩展远不那么直观，而且很难提供高质量的对比样品，这为改进留出了很大的空间。在这项工作中，通过引入一个对抗性图视图以进行数据增强，我们提出了一种简单但有效的方法，对抗图对比度学习（ARIEL），以在合理的约束中提取信息性的对比样本。我们开发了一种称为稳定训练的信息正则化的新技术，并使用子图抽样以进行可伸缩。我们通过将每个图形实例视为超级节点，从节点级对比度学习到图级。 Ariel始终优于在现实世界数据集上的节点级别和图形级分类任务的当前图对比度学习方法。我们进一步证明，面对对抗性攻击，Ariel更加强大。

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 tasks show that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance compared to other benchmarks, where ablation studies in the end demonstrate the effectiveness of modules in iGCL.

Recently, contrastive learning (CL) has emerged as a successful method for unsupervised graph representation learning. Most graph CL methods first perform stochastic augmentation on the input graph to obtain two graph views and maximize the agreement of representations in the two views. Despite the prosperous development of graph CL methods, the design of graph augmentation schemes-a crucial component in CL-remains rarely explored. We argue that the data augmentation schemes should preserve intrinsic structures and attributes of graphs, which will force the model to learn representations that are insensitive to perturbation on unimportant nodes and edges. However, most existing methods adopt uniform data augmentation schemes, like uniformly dropping edges and uniformly shuffling features, leading to suboptimal performance. In this paper, we propose a novel graph contrastive representation learning method with adaptive augmentation that incorporates various priors for topological and semantic aspects of the graph. Specifically, on the topology level, we design augmentation schemes based on node centrality measures to highlight important connective structures. On the node attribute level, we corrupt node features by adding more noise to unimportant node features, to enforce the model to recognize underlying semantic information. We perform extensive experiments of node classification on a variety of real-world datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art baselines and even surpasses some supervised counterparts, which validates the effectiveness of the proposed contrastive framework with adaptive augmentation. CCS CONCEPTS• Computing methodologies → Unsupervised learning; Neural networks; Learning latent representations.

Inspired by the impressive success of contrastive learning (CL), a variety of graph augmentation strategies have been employed to learn node representations in a self-supervised manner. Existing methods construct the contrastive samples by adding perturbations to the graph structure or node attributes. Although impressive results are achieved, it is rather blind to the wealth of prior information assumed: with the increase of the perturbation degree applied on the original graph, 1) the similarity between the original graph and the generated augmented graph gradually decreases; 2) the discrimination between all nodes within each augmented view gradually increases. In this paper, we argue that both such prior information can be incorporated (differently) into the contrastive learning paradigm following our general ranking framework. In particular, we first interpret CL as a special case of learning to rank (L2R), which inspires us to leverage the ranking order among positive augmented views. Meanwhile, we introduce a self-ranking paradigm to ensure that the discriminative information among different nodes can be maintained and also be less altered to the perturbations of different degrees. Experiment results on various benchmark datasets verify the effectiveness of our algorithm compared with the supervised and unsupervised models.

图表是一个宇宙数据结构，广泛用于组织现实世界中的数据。像交通网络，社交和学术网络这样的各种实际网络网络可以由图表代表。近年来，目睹了在网络中代表顶点的快速发展，进入低维矢量空间，称为网络表示学习。表示学习可以促进图形数据上的新算法的设计。在本调查中，我们对网络代表学习的当前文献进行了全面审查。现有算法可以分为三组：浅埋模型，异构网络嵌入模型，图形神经网络的模型。我们为每个类别审查最先进的算法，并讨论这些算法之间的基本差异。调查的一个优点是，我们系统地研究了不同类别的算法底层的理论基础，这提供了深入的见解，以更好地了解网络表示学习领域的发展。

图对比度学习（GCL）一直是图形自学学习的新兴解决方案。 GCL的核心原理是在正视图中降低样品之间的距离，但在负视图中增加样品之间的距离。在实现有希望的性能的同时，当前的GCL方法仍然受到两个局限性：（1）增强的不可控制的有效性，该图扰动可能会产生针对语义和图形数据的特征流程的无效视图； （2）不可靠的二进制对比理由，对于非欧几里得图数据而言，难以确定构造观点的积极性和负面性。为了应对上述局限性，我们提出了一个新的对比度学习范式，即图形软对比度学习（GSCL），该范例通过排名的社区无需任何增强和二进制对比符合性，在较细性的范围内进行对比度学习。 GSCL建立在图接近的基本假设上，即连接的邻居比遥远的节点更相似。具体而言，我们在配对和列表的封闭式排名中，以保留附近的相对排名关系。此外，随着邻里规模的指数增长，考虑了更多的啤酒花，我们提出了提高学习效率的邻里抽样策略。广泛的实验结果表明，我们提出的GSCL可以始终如一地在各种公共数据集上实现与GCL相当复杂的各种公共数据集的最新性能。

对比度学习是图表学习中有效的无监督方法。最近，基于数据增强的对比度学习方法已从图像扩展到图形。但是，大多数先前的作品都直接根据为图像设计的模型进行了调整。与图像上的数据增强不同，图表上的数据扩展远不那么直观，而且很难提供高质量的对比样本，这是对比度学习模型的性能的关键。这为改进现有图形对比学习框架留出了很多空间。在这项工作中，通过引入对抗图视图和信息正常化程序，我们提出了一种简单但有效的方法，即对逆向对比度学习（ARIEL），以在合理的约束中提取信息性的对比样本。它始终优于各种现实世界数据集的节点分类任务中当前的图形对比度学习方法，并进一步提高了图对比度学习的鲁棒性。

我们考虑无监督的域适应性（UDA），其中使用来自源域（例如照片）的标记数据，而来自目标域（例如草图）的未标记数据用于学习目标域的分类器。常规的UDA方法（例如，域对抗训练）学习域不变特征，以改善对目标域的概括。在本文中，我们表明，对比的预训练，它在未标记的源和目标数据上学习功能，然后在标记的源数据上进行微调，具有强大的UDA方法的竞争力。但是，我们发现对比前训练不会学习域不变特征，这与常规的UDA直觉不同。从理论上讲，我们证明了对比的预训练可以学习在跨域下微调但仍通过解开域和类信息来概括到目标域的特征。我们的结果表明，UDA不需要域的不变性。我们从经验上验证了基准视觉数据集的理论。

图表自我监督学习已被极大地用于从未标记的图表中学习表示形式。现有方法可以大致分为预测性学习和对比度学习，在这种学习中，后者通过更好的经验表现吸引了更多的研究注意力。我们认为，与对比模型相比，具有潜在增强和强大的解码器武器的预测模型可以实现可比较甚至更好的表示能力。在这项工作中，我们将数据增强引入潜在空间，以进行卓越的概括和提高效率。一个名为Wiener Graph DeonStolutional网络的新型图解码器相应地设计为从增强潜伏表示的信息重建。理论分析证明了图形滤波器的出色重建能力。各种数据集的广泛实验结果证明了我们方法的有效性。

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) and their variants have experienced significant attention and have become the de facto methods for learning graph representations. GCNs derive inspiration primarily from recent deep learning approaches, and as a result, may inherit unnecessary complexity and redundant computation. In this paper, we reduce this excess complexity through successively removing nonlinearities and collapsing weight matrices between consecutive layers. We theoretically analyze the resulting linear model and show that it corresponds to a fixed low-pass filter followed by a linear classifier. Notably, our experimental evaluation demonstrates that these simplifications do not negatively impact accuracy in many downstream applications. Moreover, the resulting model scales to larger datasets, is naturally interpretable, and yields up to two orders of magnitude speedup over FastGCN.

无监督的图形表示学习是图形数据的非琐碎主题。在结构化数据的无监督代表学习中对比学习和自我监督学习的成功激发了图表上的类似尝试。使用对比损耗的当前无监督的图形表示学习和预培训主要基于手工增强图数据之间的对比度。但是，由于不可预测的不变性，图数据增强仍然没有很好地探索。在本文中，我们提出了一种新颖的协作图形神经网络对比学习框架（CGCL），它使用多个图形编码器来观察图形。不同视图观察的特征充当了图形编码器之间对比学习的图表增强，避免了任何扰动以保证不变性。 CGCL能够处理图形级和节点级表示学习。广泛的实验表明CGCL在无监督的图表表示学习中的优势以及图形表示学习的手工数据增强组合的非必要性。