Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

Another release of SPMF: v2.64b

In November, I released the version 2.64 of SPMF with 5 new algorithms and 2 new tools, among other improvements, but I still had several other pattern mining algorithms waiting to be released after more tests. Thus, today, I make … Continue reading

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A prototype of an improved GUI for the SPMF pattern mining software

Recently, I have been working on improving the SPMF data mining software. Something good about SPMF is that it has a simple user interface. But as SPMF has evolved with more and more algorithms, the list of algorithms in the … Continue reading

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Upcoming in SPMF 2.64b : The “Pattern Diff Analyzer”

Today, I will talk to you about an upcoming feature of SPMF pattern mining software 2.64b, which I think will be very useful to many people. It is a new tool, called the Pattern Diff Analyzer that allows to calculate … Continue reading

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A new version of SPMF (v2.64, november 2025)!

Today, I am happy to announce that a new version of the SPMF data mining library has been released. It introduces five new algorithms: Besides, some various other improvements have been made to the SPMF software, including a new tool … Continue reading

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GMP: A new algorithm for compressing protein sequences

Today, I am pleased to share that our team has published a new algorithm called GMP for the compression and analysis of protein sequences. The paper will appear next month at BIBM 2025. Here is the full reference: Nawaz, M. … Continue reading

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A new tool for visualizing algorithms from SPMF

Today, I wrote some code to visualize the relationships between the algorithms offered in the SPMF open-source pattern mining library. Here is the graph of all algorithms in SPMF (excluding tools) that have the same input and output type: We … Continue reading

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Fixing the reviewresponse.cls LaTeX Class to Allow Multi-Page Comments

Today, I will show how to fix the Latex reviewresponse.cls class to allow multi-page comments. If you have ever written a detailed response to reviewers in LaTeX, you may have noticed that long reviewer comments sometimes get cut off instead … Continue reading

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How to fix reviewresponse.cls for custom reviewer numbering

Recently, I have found anice Latex class that can be used to write answers to reviewers for the rebuttal of journal papers. This latex class is called reviewresponse.cls, which can be found on GitHub. It allows to write an answer … Continue reading

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The Conference Hotel Booking Scam

Something interesting happened to me in the last few days. To my knowledge, this seems to be a scam, and to be something relatively new, so I want to share the information. Here is the context. I will be a … Continue reading

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Huge traffic from a botnet looking for datasets

Today, I received an e-mail from the Web hosting company indicating that my website had exceeded the bandwidth limit of the content delivery network (CDN) for my package. I was quite surprised. Hence, I checked the control panel, and I … Continue reading

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