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most citedSelf-supervised Graph Neural Networks without explicit negative sampling

10 citations · 21 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.LG2025

Leap: Inductive Link Prediction via Learnable TopologyAugmentation

Ahmed E. Samy, Zekarias T. Kefato, Sarunas Girdzijauskas

Link prediction is a crucial task in many downstream applications of graph machine learning. To this end, Graph Neural Network (GNN) is a widely used technique for link prediction,…

cs.LG2024

Data-Driven Self-Supervised Graph Representation Learning

Ahmed E. Samy, Zekarias T. Kefatoa, Sarunas Girdzijauskasa

Self-supervised graph representation learning (SSGRL) is a representation learning paradigm used to reduce or avoid manual labeling. An essential part of SSGRL is graph data augmen…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Jointly Learnable Data Augmentations for Self-Supervised GNNs

Zekarias T. Kefato, Sarunas Girdzijauskas, Hannes Stärk

Self-supervised Learning (SSL) aims at learning representations of objects without relying on manual labeling. Recently, a number of SSL methods for graph representation learning h…

cs.LG2021★ 10 cited

Self-supervised Graph Neural Networks without explicit negative sampling

Zekarias T. Kefato, Sarunas Girdzijauskas

Real world data is mostly unlabeled or only few instances are labeled. Manually labeling data is a very expensive and daunting task. This calls for unsupervised learning techniques…

cs.LG2020

Dynamic Embeddings for Interaction Prediction

Zekarias T. Kefato, Sarunas Girdzijauskas, Nasrullah Sheikh +1

In recommender systems (RSs), predicting the next item that a user interacts with is critical for user retention. While the last decade has seen an explosion of RSs aimed at identi…

cs.CV2020

Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction with Convolutional Neural Networks

Simone Zamboni, Zekarias Tilahun Kefato, Sarunas Girdzijauskas +2

Predicting the future trajectories of pedestrians is a challenging problem that has a range of application, from crowd surveillance to autonomous driving. In literature, methods to…

cs.LG2020

Gossip and Attend: Context-Sensitive Graph Representation Learning

Zekarias T. Kefato, Sarunas Girdzijauskas

Graph representation learning (GRL) is a powerful technique for learning low-dimensional vector representation of high-dimensional and often sparse graphs. Most studies explore the…

cs.LG2020★ 5 cited

Which way? Direction-Aware Attributed Graph Embedding

Zekarias T. Kefato, Nasrullah Sheikh, Alberto Montresor

Graph embedding algorithms are used to efficiently represent (encode) a graph in a low-dimensional continuous vector space that preserves the most important properties of the graph…

cs.LG2020★ 5 cited

Graph Neighborhood Attentive Pooling

Zekarias T. Kefato, Sarunas Girdzijauskas

Network representation learning (NRL) is a powerful technique for learning low-dimensional vector representation of high-dimensional and sparse graphs. Most studies explore the str…