Category Archives: Pattern Mining

New version of SPMF (2.44): 4 new algorithms, datasets and features

Posted on 2021-02-12 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I am happy to announce that a new version of the SPMF open-source data mining software is released (v. 2.44). This is the download page. This new version was made possible due to several contributors. What is new? New … Continue reading →

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An introduction to frequent subgraph mining

Posted on 2021-02-05 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will give an introduction to an interesting data mining task called frequent subgraph mining, which consists of discovering interesting patterns in graphs (a pattern mining task). This task is important since data is naturally represented as graph in many domains (e.g. … Continue reading →

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(video) Top-K Cross-Level High Utility Itemset Mining

Posted on 2020-10-18 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will share a video of our upcoming paper presentation about top-k cross-level high utility itemset mining that we will present at the UDML 2020 workshop at ICDM 2020. In this paper, we present a novel algorithm named TKC … Continue reading →

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Five recent books on pattern mining

Posted on 2020-08-07 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will list a few interesting and recent books on the topic of pattern mining (discovering interesting patterns in data). This mainly lists books from the last 5 years. High utility pattern mining: Theory, Applications and algorithms (2019). This … Continue reading →

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“Pattern Mining :Theory and Practice” (textbook in Thai, with SPMF)

Posted on 2020-04-30 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Hi all, this is to announce that a new textbook in Thai has been published about pattern mining, which includes many examples using the SPMF software. The textbook named “Pattern Mining: Theory and Practice” is written by teacher Panida Songram from Mahasarakham University (Thailand) and can be used for … Continue reading →

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(video) Mining Locally Trending High Utility Itemsets

Posted on 2020-04-27 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I want to share with you the video presentation that I have prepared for my paper at PAKDD 2020. It presents a new problem where we want to discover locally trending high utility itemsets (LTHUIs). A LTHUI is a set of items purchased by … Continue reading →

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UDML 2020 – Utility Driven Mining and Learning Workshop

Posted on 2020-04-01 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Hi all, This is to let you know the good news that the UDML workshop on Utility Driven Mining and Learning will be back this year, at IEEE ICDM 2020, for the third edition (UDML 2020). This is a good venue to submit your papers about data mining and machine … Continue reading →

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(video) Mining Cost-Effective Patterns

Posted on 2020-03-09 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will share another talk that I have recorded recently. This time, I will explain a new paper from my team about discovering cost-effective patterns using some algorithms called CEPB and CEPN. Mining cost-effective patterns is a new topic in pattern mining … Continue reading →

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(video) Discovering interpretable high utility patterns in databases

Posted on 2020-03-06 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will share a short keynote talk (28 min) about discovering interpretable high utility patterns in data that I have presented at the CCNS 2020 conference. This talk gives an overview of techniques for finding interesting and useful patterns that can … Continue reading →

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The SPMF data mining library v.2.40 is released!

Posted on 2019-10-23 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Hi all, I am please to announce that a new version of SPMF has just been published (v 2.40). It contains 9 novel algorithms: It also includes some bug fixes and other minor improvements. I did not release a new version of SPMF since a few … Continue reading →

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