GRENADE: Graph-Centric Language Model for Self-Supervised Representation Learning on Text-Attributed Graphs

Yichuan Li, Kaize Ding, Kyumin Lee


Abstract
Self-supervised representation learning on text-attributed graphs, which aims to create expressive and generalizable representations for various downstream tasks, has received increasing research attention lately. However, existing methods either struggle to capture the full extent of structural context information or rely on task-specific training labels, which largely hampers their effectiveness and generalizability in practice. To solve the problem of self-supervised representation learning on text-attributed graphs, we develop a novel Graph-Centric Language model – GRENADE. Specifically, GRENADE harnesses the synergy of both pre-trained language model and graph neural network by optimizing with two specialized self-supervised learning algorithms: graph-centric contrastive learning and graph-centric knowledge alignment. The proposed graph-centric self-supervised learning algorithms effectively help GRENADE to capture informative textual semantics as well as structural context information on text-attributed graphs. Through extensive experiments, GRENADE shows its superiority over state-of-the-art methods.
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2023.findings-emnlp.181
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2745–2757
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.181
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.181
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Yichuan Li, Kaize Ding, and Kyumin Lee. 2023. GRENADE: Graph-Centric Language Model for Self-Supervised Representation Learning on Text-Attributed Graphs. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 2745–2757, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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