arXiv:2509.25742cs.LG2025-09

不靠复杂增强,用结构与特征融合提升异质图表示学习效果

Less is More: Towards Simple Graph Contrastive Learning

  • 用GCN提取结构特征,MLP分离节点特征噪声,形成互补视图
  • 无需数据增强或负采样,在异质图上达到最优性能
  • 方法极简高效,适合追求稳定与低开销的图学习场景

图对比学习(GCL)在无监督图表示学习中表现优异,但在异质图(连通节点常属不同类别)上的效果仍有限。现有方法多依赖复杂的增强策略、复杂的编码器或负采样,引发疑问:这些复杂性是否必要?本文重新审视图学习基础,发现通过将节点特征噪声与图拓扑结构特征聚合,可有效缓解噪声问题。这一观察表明,原始节点特征与图结构天然构成对比学习的互补视图。基于此,我们提出一种极其简单的GCL模型:使用GCN编码器捕捉结构特征,用MLP编码器分离节点特征噪声。该方法无需数据增强或负采样,在异质图基准上实现最先进性能,且计算与内存开销极低。同时在同质图上也展现出更低复杂度、更强可扩展性和鲁棒性。我们提供了理论支持,并通过大量实验验证了其有效性,包括对黑盒与白盒对抗攻击的鲁棒性评估。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has shown strong promise for unsupervised graph representation learning, yet its effectiveness on heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes often belong to different classes, remains limited. Most existing methods rely on complex augmentation schemes, intricate encoders, or negative sampling, which raises the question of whether such complexity is truly necessary in this challenging setting. In this work, we revisit the foundations of supervised and unsupervised learning on graphs and uncover a simple yet effective principle for GCL: mitigating node feature noise by aggregating it with structural features derived from the graph topology. This observation suggests that the original node features and the graph structure naturally provide two complementary views for contrastive learning. Building on this insight, we propose an embarrassingly simple GCL model that uses a GCN encoder to capture structural features and an MLP encoder to isolate node feature noise. Our design requires neither data augmentation nor negative sampling, yet achieves state-of-the-art results on heterophilic benchmarks with minimal computational and memory overhead, while also offering advantages in homophilic graphs in terms of complexity, scalability, and robustness. We provide theoretical justification for our approach and validate its effectiveness through extensive experiments, including robustness evaluations against both black-box and white-box adversarial attacks.

图对比学习异质图轻量设计

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