This report synthesises findings from 12 peer-reviewed papers addressing the following research question: Can graph contrastive learning methods with simplified augmentation pipelines maintain their performance on sparse interaction graphs when evaluated using Hit Ratio (HR) and Mean Average Precision. In the last few years, the deep learning (DL) computing paradigm has been deemed the Gold Standard in the machine learning (ML) community. Moreover, it has gradually become the most widely used computational approach in the field of ML, thus achieving outstanding results on. 8 claims were extracted from source literature; 8 were independently verified against retrieved documents. An automated multi-reviewer quality assessment produced a score of 7.5/10. This report is a machine-generated literature synthesis and does not constitute original research.Research goal: Can graph contrastive learning methods with simplified augmentation pipelines maintain their performance on sparse interaction graphs when evaluated using Hit Ratio (HR) and Mean Average Precision (MAP) metrics?Autonomous literature synthesis. Automated review score: 7.5/10. Full text and citation available at Assignee Research.