Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

How to download an offline copy of the SPMF documentation?

Today, I will show you how to download an offline copy of the SPMF documentation. In the upcoming version 2.60 of SPMF, you can run this algorithm to open the windows of developpers tools: Then you can click here to … Continue reading

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Some interesting statistics about SPMF

While I am preparing the next version of Java SPMF data mining software (2.60), here are some interesting statistics about the project, that I have generated directly from the metadata provided by SPMF. Here it is: The number of algorithms … Continue reading

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Sneak peak at the new user interface of SPMF (part 3)

Today, I would like to talk to you about another upcoming feature of the next version of SPMF (2.60), which will be released soon. It will be a Workflow Editor that will allow the user to select multiple algorithms from … Continue reading

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ChatGPT, LLMs and homework

Today, I want to talk briefly about ChatGPT and similar large language models (LLMs) and how they are used by students in universities. From what I observe, I believe that many students are using LLMs in universities nowadays. Among this, … Continue reading

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When ChatGPT is used to write papers…

Today, I want to share with you something funny but also alarming. It is that some papers published in academic journals contains text indicating that parts were apparently written by LLMs. The first example is this paper “The three-dimensional porous … Continue reading

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Sneak peak at the new user interface of SPMF (part 2)

Today, I will continue to show you some upcoming features of SPMF 2.60, on which some work is ongoing. This new version of SPMF should be released in the coming weeks. The new feature that I will talk about today … Continue reading

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Sneak peak at the new user interface of SPMF (part 1)

I am currently working on the next version of SPMF, which will be called 2.60. There will be several improvements to the user interface of SPMF. Here is an overview of some of the improvements to give you a sneak … Continue reading

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UDML 2024 Accepted papers

Today, I want to talk to you about the upcoming UDML 2024 workshop at the PAKDD 2024 conference. This year is the 6th edition of the UDML workshop. I am happy to say that this year, we received a record … Continue reading

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SPMF 2.60 is coming soon!

Today, I want to talk a little bit about the next version of SPMF that is coming very soon. Here is some highlights of the upcoming features: 1) A Memory Viewer to help monitor the performance of algorithms in real-time: … Continue reading

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The importance of using standard terminology in research papers

Today, I will talk about the importance of using standard terminology in research papers in computer science. The idea to talk about this on the blog came after reading an interesting letter about research on optimization called “Metaphor‑based metaheuristics, a … Continue reading

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