Summary of Structure-enhanced Contrastive Learning For Graph Clustering, by Xunlian Wu et al.
Structure-enhanced Contrastive Learning for Graph Clustering
by Xunlian Wu, Jingqi Hu, Anqi Zhang, Yining Quan, Qiguang Miao, Peng Gang Sun
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes Structure-enhanced Contrastive Learning (SECL), a novel approach for improving graph clustering performance. By leveraging network structures, SECL addresses two issues plaguing existing contrastive learning-based methods: over-reliance on data augmentation and neglect of cluster-oriented structural information. SECL employs a cross-view contrastive learning mechanism to enhance node embeddings without elaborate augmentations, as well as structural contrastive learning and modularity maximization strategies to ensure structural consistency and harness clustering-oriented information. This comprehensive approach results in robust node representations that significantly improve clustering performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Graph clustering is an important task in network analysis with many applications. The paper introduces a new method called Structure-enhanced Contrastive Learning (SECL) that improves graph clustering. SECL uses the structure of the network to help it learn about clusters. It does this by looking at how nodes are connected and grouping them together based on their relationships. This helps SECL avoid some common problems with other methods, like needing a lot of extra work to prepare the data. The paper shows that SECL works well on many different types of networks and is better than other state-of-the-art methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Clustering » Data augmentation
