Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

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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An EXE version of SPMF for Windows

Today, I want to announce that I have included a compiled EXE version of SPMF.jar for Windows 64 bits on the Download page of SPMF. It is especially useful if you cannot or do not want to install Java on … Continue reading →

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A First Release of SPMF-Server and SPMF-Server Clients

Over the years, I have developed the SPMF library with collaborators as a comprehensive toolkit for pattern mining, with the goal of making a large number of algorithms easily accessible for research and teaching. While SPMF has been widely used … Continue reading →

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CFP: Special session at SOMET 2026

In this post, I want to talk about a special session on Knowledge Science and Intelligent Computing (KSIC) that I am co-organizing this year at the SOMET 2026 conference (25th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools, and Techniques). I … Continue reading →

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SPMF 2.65 is released!

Today, I want to announce that a new version of the SPMF data mining library and software has been released, which is version 2.65. This version bring several improvements, including 8 new algorithms, several optimizations, and new user interface tools … Continue reading →

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The Item-Itemset Matrix Viewer: a new feature in SPMF 2.65 (to be released)

Today, I will talk to you about a new for visualizing itemsets that will be released soon in SPMF 2.65. This tool called the Itemset-Item Matrix Viewer will be available for any algorithm that produce itemsets to visualize results in … 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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