Category Archives: Pattern Mining

SPMF 2.52 is released

Posted on 2022-02-11 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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

Posted on 2022-01-21 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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?

Posted on 2022-01-16 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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

Posted on 2021-12-07 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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?

Posted on 2021-12-05 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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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Some common problems of pattern mining papers

Posted on 2021-11-29 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will talk about pattern mining, a subfield of data mining, that aims at discovering interesting patterns in data. In particular, I will talk about why several papers from that field do not have much impact. This is generally … Continue reading →

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Three videos about Recent Studies on Pattern Mining

Posted on 2021-11-11 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will share three videos about pattern mining describing three research papers from from my team. These videos are not very long, as they are designed to just give a brief overview about the papers. Hope … Continue reading →

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CFP: The 1st Workshop on Pattern Mining and Machine Learning in Big Complex Database

Posted on 2021-10-11 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is to let you know about the upcoming 1st Workshop on Pattern mining and Machine learning in Big complex Databases (PMDB 2022) workshop that I co-organize at the DASFAA 2022 conference! PMDB 2022 aims at providing a place for researchers … Continue reading →

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Finding short high utility itemsets!

Posted on 2021-09-24 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will talk about pattern mining. I will explain a topic that is in my opinion very important but has been largely overlooked by the research community working on high utility itemset mining. It is to integrate length constraints … Continue reading →

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An Introduction to High Utility Quantitative Itemset Mining

Posted on 2021-09-10 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will talk about pattern mining, a subfield of data science that aims at finding interesting patterns in data. More precisely, I will briefly describe a popular data mining task named high utility itemset mining. Then, I will describe … Continue reading →

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