Negative Metric Learning for Graphs

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Auteurs principaux: Zhao, Yiyang, Wu, Chengpei, Zhang, Lilin, Yang, Ning
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author Zhao, Yiyang
Wu, Chengpei
Zhang, Lilin
Yang, Ning
author_facet Zhao, Yiyang
Wu, Chengpei
Zhang, Lilin
Yang, Ning
contents Graph contrastive learning (GCL) often suffers from false negatives, which degrades the performance on downstream tasks. The existing methods addressing the false negative issue usually rely on human prior knowledge, still leading GCL to suboptimal results. In this paper, we propose a novel Negative Metric Learning (NML) enhanced GCL (NML-GCL). NML-GCL employs a learnable Negative Metric Network (NMN) to build a negative metric space, in which false negatives can be distinguished better from true negatives based on their distance to anchor node. To overcome the lack of explicit supervision signals for NML, we propose a joint training scheme with bi-level optimization objective, which implicitly utilizes the self-supervision signals to iteratively optimize the encoder and the negative metric network. The solid theoretical analysis and the extensive experiments conducted on widely used benchmarks verify the superiority of the proposed method.
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spellingShingle Negative Metric Learning for Graphs
Zhao, Yiyang
Wu, Chengpei
Zhang, Lilin
Yang, Ning
Machine Learning
Graph contrastive learning (GCL) often suffers from false negatives, which degrades the performance on downstream tasks. The existing methods addressing the false negative issue usually rely on human prior knowledge, still leading GCL to suboptimal results. In this paper, we propose a novel Negative Metric Learning (NML) enhanced GCL (NML-GCL). NML-GCL employs a learnable Negative Metric Network (NMN) to build a negative metric space, in which false negatives can be distinguished better from true negatives based on their distance to anchor node. To overcome the lack of explicit supervision signals for NML, we propose a joint training scheme with bi-level optimization objective, which implicitly utilizes the self-supervision signals to iteratively optimize the encoder and the negative metric network. The solid theoretical analysis and the extensive experiments conducted on widely used benchmarks verify the superiority of the proposed method.
title Negative Metric Learning for Graphs
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10307