Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

Key Papers about High Utility Itemset Mining

In this blog post, I will talk about the most important algorithms for high utility itemset mining. I will present a list of algorithms that is of course subjective (according to my opinion). I did not list all the papers of … Continue reading

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Key Papers about Periodic Pattern Mining

In this blog post, I will list the key algorithms for periodic itemset mining (according to me) with comments about their contributions. Of course, this list is subjective. I did not list all the papers of all authors but I … Continue reading

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Approximate Algorithms for High Utility Itemset Mining

On this blog, I have previously given an introduction to a popular data mining task called high utility itemset mining. Put simply, this task aims at finding all the sets of values (items) that have a high importance in a … Continue reading

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UDML 2021 @ ICDM 2021

Hi all, This is to let you know that the UDML workshop on utility driven mining and learning is back again this year at ICDM 2021, for the fourth edition. The topic of this workshop is the concept of utility … Continue reading

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MLiSE 2021 @ PKDD 2021 – a new workshop!

I am glad to announce that I am co-organizing a new workshop called MLiSE 2021 (1st international workshop on Machine Learning in Software Engineering), held in conjunction with the ECML PKDD 2021 conference. Briefly, the aim of this workshop is … Continue reading

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Mining Episode Rules (video)

In this blog post, I will share the video of our most recent data mining paper presented last week at ACIIDS 2021. It is about a new algorithm named POERM for about analyzing sequences of events or symbols. The algorithm will find rules … Continue reading

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A Brief Report about ACIIDS 2021 (13th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems)

In this blog post, I will give a brief report about the ACIIDS 2021 conference, that I am attending from April 7–10, 2021. What is ACIIDS? ACIIDS is an international conference focusing on intelligent information and database systems. The conference … Continue reading

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Phrasebank, an interesting tool to improve your academic writing.

Writing a research paper is not easy! It is a skill that takes time to master. Luckily, most research papers follow more or less the same structure. In previous blog posts, I have given an overview of how to write … Continue reading

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Papers without code (and the problem of non-reproducible research)

Recently, there has been some debate on the Machine Learning sub-Reddit about the reproducibility or I should say the lack of reproducibility of numerous machine learning papers. Several Reddit users complained that they spent much time (sometimes weeks) to try … Continue reading

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An Overview of Pattern Mining Techniques

In this blog post, I will give an overview of some of the main pattern mining tasks, to explain what kind of patterns can be found in different types of symbolic data. I will describe some main types of data … Continue reading

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