Long Wang

Graph pseudo-labeling is an effective semi-supervised learning (SSL) approach to improve graph neural networks (GNNs) by leveraging unlabeled data. However, its success heavily depends on the reliability of pseudo-labels, which can often result in confirmation bias and training instability. To address these challenges, we propose a dual-layer consistency semi-supervised framework (DiPat), which integrates an internal differentiating pattern consistency mechanism and an external multimodal knowledge verification mechanism. In the internal layer, DiPat extracts multiple differentiating patterns from a single information source and enforces their consistency to improve the reliability of intrinsic decisions. During the supervised training phase, the model learns to extract and separate these patterns. In the semi-supervised learning phase, the model progressively selects highly consistent samples and ranks pseudo-labels based on the minimum margin principle, mitigating the overconfidence problem common in confidence-based or ensemble-based methods. In the external layer, DiPat also integrates large multimodal language models (MLLMs) as auxiliary information sources. These models provide latent textual knowledge to cross-validate internal decisions and introduce a responsibility scoring mechanism to filter out inconsistent or unreliable external judgments. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmark datasets show that DiPat demonstrates superior robustness and generalization in low-label settings, consistently outperforming strong baseline methods.

In semi-supervised learning (SSL) for enhancing the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs) with unlabeled data, introducing mutually independent decision factors for cross-validation is regarded as an effective strategy to alleviate pseudo-label confirmation bias and training collapse. However, obtaining such factors is challenging in practice: additional and valid information sources are inherently scarce, and even when such sources are available, their independence from the original source cannot be guaranteed. To address this challenge, In this paper we propose a Differentiated Factor Consistency Semi-supervised Framework (DiFac), which derives differentiated factors from a single information source and enforces their consistency. During pre-training, the model learns to extract these factors; in training, it iteratively removes samples with conflicting factors and ranks pseudo-labels based on the shortest stave principle, selecting the top candidate samples to reduce overconfidence commonly observed in confidence-based or ensemble-based methods. Our framework can also incorporate additional information sources. In this work, we leverage the large multimodal language model to introduce latent textual knowledge as auxiliary decision factors, and we design a accountability scoring mechanism to mitigate additional erroneous judgments introduced by these auxiliary factors. Experiments on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate that DiFac consistently improves robustness and generalization in low-label regimes, outperforming other baseline methods.