The paper investigates how self‑supervised graph representations can complement supervised ones for out‑of‑distribution (OOD) node classification. Two backbone‑agnostic frameworks are introduced: Co‑Train, which jointly learns and integrates supervised and SSL representations during training, and Dual‑Space Retrieval, which performs non‑parametric prediction in both representation spaces and fuses the results at inference. Experiments on four graph benchmarks with various GNN backbones and SSL objectives (DGI and GRACE) show that Co‑Train consistently outperforms strong supervised OOD baselines, while Dual‑Space Retrieval offers competitive, flexible performance, demonstrating that SSL provides complementary signals that improve OOD node classification.
Out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization remains challenging for graph neural networks (GNNs), as graph distributions can vary substantially across time and domains. Supervised and self-supervised gra...
SCARCE is a label‑free representation‑learning framework that improves graph‑level out‑of‑distribution generalization. It uses an environment partition of training graphs—derived from metadata or self‑supervised clustering—to warm‑start a variational graph autoencoder and then applies an adversarial confusion mechanism that prevents a discriminator from distinguishing environments while preserving reconstruction fidelity. Theoretical analysis shows that this environment confusion contracts environment‑discriminative directions, effectively reweighting features to reduce reliance on spurious correlations, and experiments on synthetic and DrugOOD datasets demonstrate state‑of‑the‑art OOD performance among label‑free methods.
Graph-level out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization is critical for deploying graph neural networks in real-world applications where distribution shifts are inevitable. Existing approaches typically...
arXiv:2608. 04381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning on graphs is largely shaped by contrastive methods that depend on carefully designed augmentations, and by generative methods that reconstruct node attributes in the input space.
arXiv:2607. 24338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unsupervised graph representation learning aims to derive meaningful node embeddings by capturing both structural and attribute information without relying on labeled data.
arXiv:2607. 17272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Node representation learning has advanced rapidly, yet most existing methods rely on per-dataset training and hyperparameter tuning.
arXiv:2607.11577v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Conventional Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) couple feature transformation and neighborhood aggregation, which often renders them vulnerable to...
arXiv:2607. 03587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose NetinfoGC, a framework for graph classification that extends the Network Usable Information (NUI) paradigm to graph-level learning.
Message-passing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) iteratively propagate and aggregate local neighborhood information followed by global readout to learn graph representations. However, their discriminative...
arXiv:2608. 00491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph self-supervised learning aims to learn transferable representations from large-scale unlabeled graph data.
arXiv:2609.17061v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Message-passing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) iteratively propagate and aggregate local neighborhood information followed by global readout to learn g...
arXiv:2412.08016v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Standard deep learning architectures used for classification generate label predictions with a projection head and softmax activation function. Alt...