Title
Self-supervised Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network with Co-contrastive Learning
Abstract
ABSTRACTHeterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) as an emerging technique have shown superior capacity of dealing with heterogeneous information network (HIN). However, most HGNNs follow a semi-supervised learning manner, which notably limits their wide use in reality since labels are usually scarce in real applications. Recently, contrastive learning, a self-supervised method, becomes one of the most exciting learning paradigms and shows great potential when there are no labels. In this paper, we study the problem of self-supervised HGNNs and propose a novel co-contrastive learning mechanism for HGNNs, named HeCo. Different from traditional contrastive learning which only focuses on contrasting positive and negative samples, HeCo employs cross-view contrastive mechanism. Specifically, two views of a HIN (network schema and meta-path views) are proposed to learn node embeddings, so as to capture both of local and high-order structures simultaneously. Then the cross-view contrastive learning, as well as a view mask mechanism, is proposed, which is able to extract the positive and negative embeddings from two views. This enables the two views to collaboratively supervise each other and finally learn high-level node embeddings. Moreover, two extensions of HeCo are designed to generate harder negative samples with high quality, which further boosts the performance of HeCo. Extensive experiments conducted on a variety of real-world networks show the superior performance of the proposed methods over the state-of-the-arts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3447548.3467415
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Heterogeneous information network, Heterogeneous graph neural network, Contrastive learning
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
12
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiao Wang144529.80
Nian Liu211.05
Hui Han311.03
Chuan Shi4113780.79