Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

CFP: Special issue on Energy-aware Artificial Intelligence

Today, I want to share the Call for Papers (CFP) for a special issue that I co-organize on the topic of “Energy-aware Artificial Intelligence: Theory, Algorithms and Systems“. The special issue is in the journal “Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems“, … Continue reading

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Performance of Java vs Python for Sequential Pattern Mining (CM-SPAM)

There is always a debate about the performance of different programming languages, which is one aspect among many for choosing a programming language. As the founder of the SPMF data mining library, implemented in Java and focused on performance, I … Continue reading

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SPMF v2.66 is released

I am happy to announce today that the new version of SPMF v. 2.66 is finally released. You can visit the download page of the SPMF website for more information on this release. This version brings several improvements, including 25 … Continue reading

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Two upcoming workshops on bioinformatics and machine learning / pattern mining

I am glad to announce that I am co-organizing two workshop related to machine learning and pattern mining with bioinformatics at the upcoming IEEE BIBM 2026 and IEEE ICDM 2026 conferences. The details are below: HP4Moda 2026 (2nd Workshop on Heuristic … Continue reading

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Upcoming SPMF 2.66 feature: Improved Workflow Editor

Today, I want to talk to give you a glimpse about some additional improvements in the upcoming version 2.66 of the SPMF pattern mining software, which will be released very soon. In this version, I have improved the Workflow editor. … Continue reading

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Upcoming feature of SPMF 2.66 : Visual Pattern Viewer

Today, I want to talk to you about other new features in SPMF. 2.66, which will be released in the next few days. I have also improved the Visual Pattern Viewer. Now it can be also used to visualized subgraphs: … Continue reading

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Improved Visual Pattern Viewer with Pagination in SPMF 2.66

Today, I want to show you some new features in the upcoming version of SPMF 2.66. The visual pattern viewer is now improved to show larger set of patterns using pagination. This means that if you load an output file … Continue reading

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Improved user interface in SPMF v.2.66 (part 2)

Today, I will continue to talk about improvements to the user interface of SPMF, for the upcoming version 2.66. I have just added a new Run history panel. To access it the user will click here: And then, the run … Continue reading

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Improved user interface in SPMF 2.66

It is a long time that I did not update the main window in the user interface of SPMF. In the next version of SPMF that will be released this month (v.2.66), I have started to make some improvements. Here … Continue reading

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Academic genealogy

Today, I will talk briefly about a general topic related to research which is academic genealogy. Just as families pass knowledge and traditions across generations, researchers also inherit ideas, methods, and scientific values from their supervisors and mentors. In many … Continue reading

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