Title
Pairwise Half-graph Discrimination - A Simple Graph-level Self-supervised Strategy for Pre-training Graph Neural Networks.
Abstract
Self-supervised learning has gradually emerged as a powerful technique for graph representation learning. However, transferable, generalizable, and robust representation learning on graph data still remains a challenge for pre-training graph neural networks. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective self-supervised pre-training strategy, named Pairwise Half-graph Discrimination (PHD), that explicitly pre-trains a graph neural network at graph-level. PHD is designed as a simple binary classification task to discriminate whether two half-graphs come from the same source. Experiments demonstrate that the PHD is an effective pre-training strategy that offers comparable or superior performance on 13 graph classification tasks compared with state-of-the-art strategies, and achieves notable improvements when combined with node-level strategies. Moreover, the visualization of learned representation revealed that PHD strategy indeed empowers the model to learn graph-level knowledge like the molecular scaffold. These results have established PHD as a powerful and effective self-supervised learning strategy in graph-level representation learning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.24963/ijcai.2021/371
IJCAI
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pengyong Li111.71
Jun Wang25116.17
Ziliang Li300.34
Yixuan Qiao412.05
Xianggen Liu532.07
Fei Ma600.34
Peng Gao7712.93
Sen Song829922.35
Guotong Xie901.35