Category Archives: Pattern Mining

SPMF 2.48

Posted on 2021-06-28 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Hi all, I have not been very active on the blog during the last month. This is because I had many thinsg going on in my personal and professional life that I will not reveal here. But I will be … Continue reading →

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Key Papers about High Utility Itemset Mining

Posted on 2021-06-12 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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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Approximate Algorithms for High Utility Itemset Mining

Posted on 2021-05-06 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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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An Overview of Pattern Mining Techniques

Posted on 2021-03-09 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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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Analyzing the COVID-19 genome with AI and data mining techniques (paper + data + code)

Posted on 2021-02-18 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Recently, my team has been working on analyzing COVID-19 genome sequences using pattern mining and other data mining and AI techniques. We have recently published a paper in the Applied Intelligence journal about this. In this blog post, I will … Continue reading →

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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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