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Poster
When Does Self-Supervision Help Graph Convolutional Networks?
Yuning You · Tianlong Chen · Zhangyang “Atlas” Wang · Yang Shen

Thu Jul 16 09:00 AM -- 09:45 AM & Thu Jul 16 08:00 PM -- 08:45 PM (PDT) @
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Self-supervision as an emerging technique has been employed to train convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for more transferrable, generalizable, and robust representation learning of images. Its introduction to graph convolutional networks (GCNs) operating on graph data is however rarely explored. In this study, we report the first systematic exploration and assessment of incorporating self-supervision into GCNs. We first elaborate three mechanisms to incorporate self-supervision into GCNs, analyze the limitations of pretraining & finetuning and self-training, and proceed to focus on multi-task learning. Moreover, we propose to investigate three novel self-supervised learning tasks for GCNs with theoretical rationales and numerical comparisons. Lastly, we further integrate multi-task self-supervision into graph adversarial training. Our results show that, with properly designed task forms and incorporation mechanisms, self-supervision benefits GCNs in gaining more generalizability and robustness. Our codes are available at https://github.com/Shen-Lab/SS-GCNs.

Keywords: Semi-supervised learning · Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Learning

Author Information

Yuning You (Texas A&M University)
Tianlong Chen (Texas A&M University)
Zhangyang “Atlas” Wang (University of Texas at Austin)
Yang Shen (Texas A&M University)

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