Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

A keynote speaker unable to manage time (180 slides!)

Today, I want to talk to you about something quite incredible. I recently attended a keynote speech at an international conference. That keynote speaker was attending online was scheduled for a 35 minute presentation. However, he had prepared 180 slides. … Continue reading

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Merry X-Mas and Happy New year to SPMF users!

Just a short blog post today to wish you happy holidays and Merry X-Mas to those who are celebrating it, among the users of SPMF! Thanks again for your support! Related posts: What I learned from being a journal editor … Continue reading

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The 1st HP4MoDa workshop was held at BIBM 2025

Today, the first workshop 1st Workshop on Heuristic and Pattern Mining for Multi-Omics Data Analytics was held at IEEE BIBM 2025, online. I co-organize this workshop with M. Saqib Nawaz and other collaborators. The workshop focus on various machine learning … Continue reading

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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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