Many applications of machine learning require a model to make accurate predictions on test examples that are distributionally different from training ones, while task-specific labels are scarce during training. An effective approach to this challenge is to pre-train a model on related tasks where data is abundant, and then fine-tune it on a downstream task of interest. While pre-training has been effective in many language and vision domains, it remains an open question how to effectively use pre-training on graph datasets. In this paper, we develop a new strategy and self-supervised methods for pre-training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). The key to the success of our strategy is to pre-train an expressive GNN at the level of individual nodes as well as entire graphs so that the GNN can learn useful local and global representations simultaneously. We systematically study pre-training on multiple graph classification datasets. We find that naïve strategies, which pre-train GNNs at the level of either entire graphs or individual nodes, give limited improvement and can even lead to negative transfer on many downstream tasks. In contrast, our strategy avoids negative transfer and improves generalization significantly across downstream tasks, leading up to 9.4% absolute improvements in ROC-AUC over non-pre-trained models and achieving state-of-the-art performance for molecular property prediction and protein function prediction.However, pre-training on graph datasets remains a hard challenge. Several key studies (

自我监督的学习逐渐被出现为一种强大的图形表示学习技术。然而，在图表数据上进行可转换，概括和强大的表示学习仍然是对预训练图形神经网络的挑战。在本文中，我们提出了一种简单有效的自我监督的自我监督的预训练策略，命名为成对半图歧视（PHD），明确地预先在图形级别进行了图形神经网络。 PHD被设计为简单的二进制分类任务，以辨别两个半图是否来自同一源。实验表明，博士学位是一种有效的预训练策略，与最先进的策略相比，在13图分类任务上提供了可比或优越的性能，并在与节点级策略结合时实现了显着的改进。此外，所学习代表的可视化透露，博士策略确实赋予了模型来学习像分子支架等图形级知识。这些结果已将博士学位作为图形级别代表学习中的强大有效的自我监督的学习策略。

Although substantial efforts have been made using graph neural networks (GNNs) for AI-driven drug discovery (AIDD), effective molecular representation learning remains an open challenge, especially in the case of insufficient labeled molecules. Recent studies suggest that big GNN models pre-trained by self-supervised learning on unlabeled datasets enable better transfer performance in downstream molecular property prediction tasks. However, they often require large-scale datasets and considerable computational resources, which is time-consuming, computationally expensive, and environmentally unfriendly. To alleviate these limitations, we propose a novel pre-training model for molecular representation learning, Bi-branch Masked Graph Transformer Autoencoder (BatmanNet). BatmanNet features two tailored and complementary graph autoencoders to reconstruct the missing nodes and edges from a masked molecular graph. To our surprise, BatmanNet discovered that the highly masked proportion (60%) of the atoms and bonds achieved the best performance. We further propose an asymmetric graph-based encoder-decoder architecture for either nodes and edges, where a transformer-based encoder only takes the visible subset of nodes or edges, and a lightweight decoder reconstructs the original molecule from the latent representation and mask tokens. With this simple yet effective asymmetrical design, our BatmanNet can learn efficiently even from a much smaller-scale unlabeled molecular dataset to capture the underlying structural and semantic information, overcoming a major limitation of current deep neural networks for molecular representation learning. For instance, using only 250K unlabelled molecules as pre-training data, our BatmanNet with 2.575M parameters achieves a 0.5% improvement on the average AUC compared with the current state-of-the-art method with 100M parameters pre-trained on 11M molecules.

We present the OPEN GRAPH BENCHMARK (OGB), a diverse set of challenging and realistic benchmark datasets to facilitate scalable, robust, and reproducible graph machine learning (ML) research. OGB datasets are large-scale, encompass multiple important graph ML tasks, and cover a diverse range of domains, ranging from social and information networks to biological networks, molecular graphs, source code ASTs, and knowledge graphs. For each dataset, we provide a unified evaluation protocol using meaningful application-specific data splits and evaluation metrics. In addition to building the datasets, we also perform extensive benchmark experiments for each dataset. Our experiments suggest that OGB datasets present significant challenges of scalability to large-scale graphs and out-of-distribution generalization under realistic data splits, indicating fruitful opportunities for future research. Finally, OGB provides an automated end-to-end graph ML pipeline that simplifies and standardizes the process of graph data loading, experimental setup, and model evaluation. OGB will be regularly updated and welcomes inputs from the community. OGB datasets as well as data loaders, evaluation scripts, baseline code, and leaderboards are publicly available at https://ogb.stanford.edu.

使用图神经网络（GNN）提取分子的信息表示，对于AI驱动的药物发现至关重要。最近，图形研究界一直在试图复制自然语言处理预处理的成功，并获得了一些成功。但是，我们发现在许多情况下，自我监督预审计对分子数据的益处可以忽略不计。我们对GNN预处理的关键组成部分进行了彻底的消融研究，包括预处理目标，数据拆分方法，输入特征，预处理数据集量表和GNN体系结构，以决定下游任务的准确性。我们的第一个重要发现是，在许多情况下，自我监督的图表预处理没有统计学上的显着优势。其次，尽管可以通过额外的监督预处理可以观察到改进，但通过更丰富或更平衡的数据拆分，改进可能会减少。第三，实验性超参数对下游任务的准确性具有更大的影响，而不是训练训练的任务。我们假设对分子进行预训练的复杂性不足，从而导致下游任务的可转移知识较低。

Molecular representation learning is crucial for the problem of molecular property prediction, where graph neural networks (GNNs) serve as an effective solution due to their structure modeling capabilities. Since labeled data is often scarce and expensive to obtain, it is a great challenge for GNNs to generalize in the extensive molecular space. Recently, the training paradigm of "pre-train, fine-tune" has been leveraged to improve the generalization capabilities of GNNs. It uses self-supervised information to pre-train the GNN, and then performs fine-tuning to optimize the downstream task with just a few labels. However, pre-training does not always yield statistically significant improvement, especially for self-supervised learning with random structural masking. In fact, the molecular structure is characterized by motif subgraphs, which are frequently occurring and influence molecular properties. To leverage the task-related motifs, we propose a novel paradigm of "pre-train, prompt, fine-tune" for molecular representation learning, named molecule continuous prompt tuning (MolCPT). MolCPT defines a motif prompting function that uses the pre-trained model to project the standalone input into an expressive prompt. The prompt effectively augments the molecular graph with meaningful motifs in the continuous representation space; this provides more structural patterns to aid the downstream classifier in identifying molecular properties. Extensive experiments on several benchmark datasets show that MolCPT efficiently generalizes pre-trained GNNs for molecular property prediction, with or without a few fine-tuning steps.

分子表示学习有助于多个下游任务，例如分子性质预测和药物设计。为了适当地代表分子，图形对比学习是一个有前途的范式，因为它利用自我监督信号并没有人类注释要求。但是，先前的作品未能将基本域名知识纳入图表语义，因此忽略了具有共同属性的原子之间的相关性，但不通过键连接连接。为了解决这些问题，我们构建化学元素知识图（KG），总结元素之间的微观关联，并提出了一种用于分子代表学习的新颖知识增强的对比学习（KCL）框架。 KCL框架由三个模块组成。第一个模块，知识引导的图形增强，基于化学元素kg增强原始分子图。第二模块，知识意识的图形表示，利用用于原始分子图的公共曲线图编码器和通过神经网络（KMPNN）的知识感知消息来提取分子表示来编码增强分子图中的复杂信息。最终模块是一种对比目标，在那里我们在分子图的这两个视图之间最大化协议。广泛的实验表明，KCL获得了八个分子数据集上的最先进基线的优异性能。可视化实验适当地解释了在增强分子图中从原子和属性中了解的KCL。我们的代码和数据可用于补充材料。

图对比度学习已被证明是图形神经网络（GNN）预训练的有效任务。但是，一个关键问题可能会严重阻碍现有作品中的代表权：当前方法创建的积极实例通常会错过图表的关键信息，甚至会错过非法实例（例如分子生成中的非化学意识图）。为了解决此问题，我们建议直接从训练集中的现有图中选择正图实例，该实例最终保持与目标图的合法性和相似性。我们的选择基于某些特定于域的成对相似性测量以及从层次图编码图中的相似性关系的采样。此外，我们开发了一种自适应节点级预训练方法，以动态掩盖节点在图中均匀分布。我们对来自各个域的$ 13 $图形分类和节点分类基准数据集进行了广泛的实验。结果表明，通过我们的策略预先培训的GNN模型可以胜过那些训练有素的从划痕模型以及通过现有方法获得的变体。

分子特性预测是与关键现实影响的深度学习的增长最快的应用之一。包括3D分子结构作为学习模型的输入可以提高它们对许多分子任务的性能。但是，此信息是不可行的，可以以几个现实世界应用程序所需的规模计算。我们建议预先训练模型，以推理仅给予其仅为2D分子图的分子的几何形状。使用来自自我监督学习的方法，我们最大化3D汇总向量和图形神经网络（GNN）的表示之间的相互信息，使得它们包含潜在的3D信息。在具有未知几何形状的分子上进行微调期间，GNN仍然产生隐式3D信息，并可以使用它来改善下游任务。我们表明3D预训练为广泛的性质提供了显着的改进，例如八个量子力学性能的22％的平均MAE。此外，可以在不同分子空间中的数据集之间有效地传送所学习的表示。

学习有效的蛋白质表示在生物学的各种任务中至关重要，例如预测蛋白质功能或结构。现有的方法通常在大量未标记的氨基酸序列上预先蛋白质语言模型，然后在下游任务中使用一些标记的数据来对模型进行修复。尽管基于序列的方法具有有效性，但尚未探索蛋白质性能预测的已知蛋白质结构的预处理功能，尽管蛋白质结构已知是蛋白质功能的决定因素，但尚未探索。在本文中，我们建议根据其3D结构预处理蛋白质。我们首先提出一个简单而有效的编码器，以学习蛋白质的几何特征。我们通过利用多视图对比学习和不同的自我预测任务来预先蛋白质图编码器。对功能预测和折叠分类任务的实验结果表明，我们提出的预处理方法表现优于或与最新的基于最新的序列方法相提并论，同时使用较少的数据。我们的实施可在https://github.com/deepgraphlearning/gearnet上获得。

Graph representation learning has emerged as a powerful technique for addressing real-world problems. Various downstream graph learning tasks have benefited from its recent developments, such as node classification, similarity search, and graph classification. However, prior arts on graph representation learning focus on domain specific problems and train a dedicated model for each graph dataset, which is usually non-transferable to out-of-domain data. Inspired by the recent advances in pre-training from natural language processing and computer vision, we design Graph Contrastive Coding (GCC) 1 -a self-supervised graph neural network pre-training framework-to capture the universal network topological properties across multiple networks. We design GCC's pre-training task as subgraph instance discrimination in and across networks and leverage contrastive learning to empower graph neural networks to learn the intrinsic and transferable structural representations. We conduct extensive experiments on three graph learning tasks and ten graph datasets. The results show that GCC pre-trained on a collection of diverse datasets can achieve competitive or better performance to its task-specific and trained-from-scratch counterparts. This suggests that the pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm presents great potential for graph representation learning.

图表自学学习（GSSL）铺平了无需专家注释的学习图嵌入的方式，这对分子图特别有影响，因为可能的分子数量很大，并且标签昂贵。但是，通过设计，GSSL方法没有经过训练，可以在一个下游任务上表现良好，而是旨在将其转移到许多人方面，从而使评估不那么直接。作为获得具有多种多样且可解释属性的分子图嵌入曲线的一步，我们引入了分子图表示评估（Molgrapheval），这是一组探针任务，分为（i）拓扑 - ，（ii）子结构 - 和（iii）和（iii）嵌入空间属性。通过对现有下游数据集和Molgrapheval上的现有GSSL方法进行基准测试，我们发现单独从现有数据集中得出的结论与更细粒度的探测之间存在令人惊讶的差异，这表明当前的评估协议没有提供整个图片。我们的模块化，自动化的端到端GSSL管道代码将在接受后发布，包括标准化的图形加载，实验管理和嵌入评估。

这项工作考虑了在属性关系图（ARG）上表示表示的任务。 ARG中的节点和边缘都与属性/功能相关联，允许ARG编码在实际应用中广泛观察到的丰富结构信息。现有的图形神经网络提供了有限的能力，可以在局部结构环境中捕获复杂的相互作用，从而阻碍他们利用ARG的表达能力。我们提出了Motif卷积模块（MCM），这是一种新的基于基线的图表表示技术，以更好地利用本地结构信息。处理连续边缘和节点功能的能力是MCM比现有基于基础图案的模型的优势之一。 MCM以无监督的方式构建了一个主题词汇，并部署了一种新型的主题卷积操作，以提取单个节点的局部结构上下文，然后将其用于通过多层perceptron学习高级节点表示，并在图神经网络中传递消息。与其他图形学习方法进行分类的合成图相比，我们的方法在捕获结构环境方面要好得多。我们还通过将其应用于几个分子基准来证明我们方法的性能和解释性优势。

图形预训练策略一直在图形挖掘社区吸引人们的注意力，因为它们在没有任何标签信息的情况下在参数化图形神经网络（GNN）方面的灵活性。关键思想在于通过预测从输入图中提取的掩蔽图信号来编码有价值的信息。为了平衡各种图形信号的重要性（例如节点，边缘，子图），现有方法主要是通过引入超参数来重新进行图形信号的重要性来进行手工设计的。然而，人类对亚最佳高参数的干预通常会注入额外的偏见，并在下游应用中降低了概括性能。本文从新的角度解决了这些局限性，即为预培训GNN提供课程。我们提出了一个名为Mentorgnn的端到端模型，该模型旨在监督具有不同结构和不同特征空间的图表的GNN的预训练过程。为了理解不同粒度的异质图信号，我们提出了一种课程学习范式，该课程自动重新贴出图形信号，以确保对目标域进行良好的概括。此外，我们通过在预先训练的GNN的概括误差上得出自然且可解释的上限，从而对关系数据（即图形）的域自适应问题（即图形）发出了新的启示。有关大量真实图的广泛实验验证并验证了Mentorgnn的性能。

预训练在机器学习的不同领域表现出成功，例如计算机视觉，自然语言处理（NLP）和医学成像。但是，尚未完全探索用于临床数据分析。记录了大量的临床记录，但是对于在小型医院收集的数据或处理罕见疾病的数据仍可能稀缺数据和标签。在这种情况下，对较大的未标记临床数据进行预训练可以提高性能。在本文中，我们提出了专为异质的多模式临床数据设计的新型无监督的预训练技术，用于通过蒙版语言建模（MLM）启发的患者预测，通过利用对人群图的深度学习来启发。为此，我们进一步提出了一个基于图形转换器的网络，该网络旨在处理异质临床数据。通过将基于掩盖的预训练与基于变压器的网络相结合，我们将基于掩盖的其他域中训练的成功转化为异质临床数据。我们使用三个医学数据集Tadpole，Mimic-III和一个败血症预测数据集，在自我监督和转移学习设置中展示了我们的预训练方法的好处。我们发现，我们提出的培训方法有助于对患者和人群水平的数据进行建模，并提高所有数据集中不同微调任务的性能。

With the increasing use of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in critical real-world applications, several post hoc explanation methods have been proposed to understand their predictions. However, there has been no work in generating explanations on the fly during model training and utilizing them to improve the expressive power of the underlying GNN models. In this work, we introduce a novel explanation-directed neural message passing framework for GNNs, EXPASS (EXplainable message PASSing), which aggregates only embeddings from nodes and edges identified as important by a GNN explanation method. EXPASS can be used with any existing GNN architecture and subgraph-optimizing explainer to learn accurate graph embeddings. We theoretically show that EXPASS alleviates the oversmoothing problem in GNNs by slowing the layer wise loss of Dirichlet energy and that the embedding difference between the vanilla message passing and EXPASS framework can be upper bounded by the difference of their respective model weights. Our empirical results show that graph embeddings learned using EXPASS improve the predictive performance and alleviate the oversmoothing problems of GNNs, opening up new frontiers in graph machine learning to develop explanation-based training frameworks.

Models that accurately predict properties based on chemical structure are valuable tools in drug discovery. However, for many properties, public and private training sets are typically small, and it is difficult for the models to generalize well outside of the training data. Recently, large language models have addressed this problem by using self-supervised pretraining on large unlabeled datasets, followed by fine-tuning on smaller, labeled datasets. In this paper, we report MolE, a molecular foundation model that adapts the DeBERTa architecture to be used on molecular graphs together with a two-step pretraining strategy. The first step of pretraining is a self-supervised approach focused on learning chemical structures, and the second step is a massive multi-task approach to learn biological information. We show that fine-tuning pretrained MolE achieves state-of-the-art results on 9 of the 22 ADMET tasks included in the Therapeutic Data Commons.

由于现实世界图形/网络数据中的广泛标签稀缺问题，因此，自我监督的图形神经网络（GNN）非常需要。曲线图对比度学习（GCL），通过训练GNN以其不同的增强形式最大化相同图表之间的表示之间的对应关系，即使在不使用标签的情况下也可以产生稳健和可转移的GNN。然而，GNN由传统的GCL培训经常冒险捕获冗余图形特征，因此可能是脆弱的，并在下游任务中提供子对比。在这里，我们提出了一种新的原理，称为普通的普通GCL（AD-GCL），其使GNN能够通过优化GCL中使用的对抗性图形增强策略来避免在训练期间捕获冗余信息。我们将AD-GCL与理论解释和设计基于可训练的边缘滴加图的实际实例化。我们通过与最先进的GCL方法进行了实验验证了AD-GCL，并在无监督，6 \％$ 14 \％$ 6 \％$ 14 \％$ 6 \％$ 6 \％$ 3 \％$ 3 \％$达到半监督总体学习设置，具有18个不同的基准数据集，用于分子属性回归和分类和社交网络分类。

Generalizable, transferrable, and robust representation learning on graph-structured data remains a challenge for current graph neural networks (GNNs). Unlike what has been developed for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image data, self-supervised learning and pre-training are less explored for GNNs. In this paper, we propose a graph contrastive learning (GraphCL) framework for learning unsupervised representations of graph data. We first design four types of graph augmentations to incorporate various priors. We then systematically study the impact of various combinations of graph augmentations on multiple datasets, in four different settings: semi-supervised, unsupervised, and transfer learning as well as adversarial attacks. The results show that, even without tuning augmentation extents nor using sophisticated GNN architectures, our GraphCL framework can produce graph representations of similar or better generalizability, transferrability, and robustness compared to state-of-the-art methods. We also investigate the impact of parameterized graph augmentation extents and patterns, and observe further performance gains in preliminary experiments. Our codes are available at: https://github.com/Shen-Lab/GraphCL.

Graph classification is an important area in both modern research and industry. Multiple applications, especially in chemistry and novel drug discovery, encourage rapid development of machine learning models in this area. To keep up with the pace of new research, proper experimental design, fair evaluation, and independent benchmarks are essential. Design of strong baselines is an indispensable element of such works. In this thesis, we explore multiple approaches to graph classification. We focus on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which emerged as a de facto standard deep learning technique for graph representation learning. Classical approaches, such as graph descriptors and molecular fingerprints, are also addressed. We design fair evaluation experimental protocol and choose proper datasets collection. This allows us to perform numerous experiments and rigorously analyze modern approaches. We arrive to many conclusions, which shed new light on performance and quality of novel algorithms. We investigate application of Jumping Knowledge GNN architecture to graph classification, which proves to be an efficient tool for improving base graph neural network architectures. Multiple improvements to baseline models are also proposed and experimentally verified, which constitutes an important contribution to the field of fair model comparison.