Category Archives: Pattern Mining

SPMF: bug fix about screen resolution

Posted on 2024-04-24 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Hi all, this is just to let you know that I found that there was a problem with the user interface of SPMF on low resolution screens in the update 2.60. The table for setting the parameters of algorithms was … Continue reading →

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SPMF 2.60 is released!

Posted on 2024-04-21 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is a short message today to announce that the new version of SPMF 2.60 is finally released! This is a major version as it contains many new things. The full lists of changes can be found on the download … Continue reading →

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UDML 2024 Accepted papers

Posted on 2024-02-18 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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!

Posted on 2024-02-05 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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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A new survey paper on episode mining!

Posted on 2023-12-10 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

I am pleased to announce today that my collaborators and I have published a new survey paper about episode mining to give an introduction to this nice and interesting subfield of pattern mining. To our knowledge this is the most … Continue reading →

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SPMF: upcoming feature: The Memory Viewer

Posted on 2023-07-17 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I would like to introduce an upcoming feature that will be released in the next version of SPMF (v. 2.60). It is a tool called the Memory Viewer. This tool is very simple yet useful for investigating the performance … Continue reading →

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(video) The EFIM algorithm

Posted on 2023-07-12 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Here is a new video that I have recorded to explain the EFIM algorithm for high utility itemset mining. You can watch the video here. Related to this, if you want to try the EFIM algorithm, the original source code … Continue reading →

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(video) Introduction to episode mining

Posted on 2023-07-10 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

If you want to learn more about frequent episode mining, I have put online a new video that gives an introduction to this topic. To watch the video, you can download it from my website here or watch it from … Continue reading →

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An Online Demo of the Eclat Algorithm

Posted on 2023-05-27 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

I have created a new interactive webpage to demonstrate how the Eclat algorithm is applied for frequent itemset mining. This webpage allows to enter a transaction database, select the minimum support and to see step by step what the Eclat … Continue reading →

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Test your knowledge of sequential rule mining!

Posted on 2023-05-25 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Do you know about sequential rule mining? It is a popular task in pattern mining that aims at finding rules in sequences. In this blog post, I will give a list of 8 questions and answers to evaluate your knowledge … Continue reading →

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