Category Archives: Pattern Mining

(video) Rare Itemset Mining

I have uploaded a new 38 minutes video to explain rare itemset mining. This video is like a small course, where you can learn about infrequent itemsets, minimal rare itemsets and perfectly rare itemsets and some algorithms : AprioriInverse and … Continue reading

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The HUIM-Miner and FHM algorithms (video)

Today, I post one more new video to explain concepts about pattern mining. In the new video, I talk about high utility itemset mining, and explain the HUI-Miner and FHM algorithms. Those are two popular high utility itemset mining algorithms … Continue reading

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The PrefixSpan algorithm (video)

I have posted a new video about pattern mining, explaining the PrefixSpan algorithm. It assumes that you know already what is sequential pattern mining. If you are not familiar with sequential pattern mining, you can first watch my video Introduction … Continue reading

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Some upcoming features of SPMF 2.54

Today, I will reveal some upcoming features of SPMF, which I am currently testing and will be released in the next version (2.54), probably in about 1 week. 1) The first new feature is that it will be possible to … Continue reading

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New videos about pattern mining

Today, I share with you some new videos that I have recorded about pattern mining. The first videos gives an introduction to some important topics: sequential pattern mining, frequent subgraph mining and high utility itemset mining, while the lastvideo explains … Continue reading

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SPMF 2.52 is released

This is just a short blog post to let you know that a new version of the SPMF library has been released, called version 2.52. This new version contains two new algorithms for high utility itemset mining and one for … Continue reading

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(video) TKQ : Top-K Quantitative High Utility Itemset Mining

In this blog post, I will share a short video about a new algorithms for top-k quantitative high utility itemset mining, which will be presented at ADMA 2021. Here is the link to watch the paper presentation:https://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/spmf/videos/poerm_video.mp4 And here is the … Continue reading

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How many association rules in a dataset?

This is a very short blog post about the calculation of the number of possible association rules in a dataset. I will assume that you know already what is association rule mining. Let’s say that you have a dataset that … Continue reading

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Brief report about UDML 2021 (4th International Workshop on Utility-Driven Mining and Learning

Today, it was the 4th International Workshop on Utility-Driven Mining and Learning (UDML 2021), held at the IEEE ICDM 2021 conference. I am a co-organizer of the workshop and will give a brief report about it. What is UDML? UDML … Continue reading

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What is a good pattern mining algorithm?

Today, I will continue talking about pattern mining, and in particular about what is a good pattern mining algorithm. There are a lot of algorithms for discovering patterns in data that are not useful in real-life. To design a good pattern … Continue reading

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