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Graph-level Representation Learning with Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures

27 Sep 2023arXiv:2309.16014archive 2025-07-28

Geri Skenderi, Hang Li, Jiliang Tang, Marco Cristani

Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) have recently emerged as a novel and powerful technique for self-supervised representation learning. They aim to learn an energy-based model by predicting the latent representation of a target signal y from the latent representation of a context signal x. JEPAs bypass the need for negative and positive samples, traditionally required by contrastive learning while avoiding the overfitting issues associated with generative pretraining. In this paper, we show that graph-level representations can be effectively modeled using this paradigm by proposing a Graph Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (Graph-JEPA). In particular, we employ masked modeling and focus on predicting the latent representations of masked subgraphs starting from the latent representation of a context subgraph. To endow the representations with the implicit hierarchy that is often present in graph-level concepts, we devise an alternative prediction objective that consists of predicting the coordinates of the encoded subgraphs on the unit hyperbola in the 2D plane. Through multiple experimental evaluations, we show that Graph-JEPA can learn highly semantic and expressive representations, as shown by the downstream performance in graph classification, regression, and distinguishing non-isomorphic graphs. The code is available at https://github.com/geriskenderi/graph-jepa.

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Contrastive LearningData AugmentationGraph ClassificationGraph RegressionRepresentation Learning

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Graph Classification D&D Graph-JEPA Accuracy 78.64% #24 of 53 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification IMDb-B Graph-JEPA Accuracy 73.68% #29 of 51 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification IMDb-M Graph-JEPA Accuracy 50.69% #18 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification MUTAG Graph-JEPA Accuracy 91.25% #14 of 74 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification PROTEINS Graph-JEPA Accuracy 75.67% #62 of 103 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Classification REDDIT-B Graph-JEPA Accuracy 56.73 #12 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Graph Regression ZINC Graph-JEPA MAE 0.434 #27 of 27 Archive leaderboard report

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