Category Archives: Pattern Mining

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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25 years of pattern mining

Posted on 2019-09-02 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This year, we are in 2019, and it is already 25 years since Agrawal wrote his seminal papers on frequent itemset mining and association rule mining in 1994. Since then, there has been thousands of papers published on this topic, some about algorithm design, new pattern mining … Continue reading →

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(video) Mining Frequent Itemsets with the Apriori algorithm

Posted on 2019-04-20 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is a video presentation of the Apriori algorithm for discovering frequent itemsets in data. Frequent itemset mining is one of the most popular data mining task. VIDEO LINK: https://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/spmf/videos/apriori.mp4 The Java source code of the Apriori algorithm and datasets for evaluating its performance are available in the SPMF software. If you want … Continue reading →

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(video) Mining Sequential Rules with RuleGrowth

Posted on 2018-12-26 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is a video presentation of the paper “Mining Partially-Ordered Sequential Rules Common to Multiple Sequences” about discovering sequential rules in sequences using the RuleGrowth algorithm. VIDEO LINK: https://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/spmf/videos/rulegrowth.mp4 More information about the RuleGrowth algorithm are provided in this research paper: Fournier-Viger, P., Wu, C.-W., Tseng, V.S., Cao, L., Nkambou, R. (2015). Mining Partially-Ordered Sequential Rules Common to Multiple … Continue reading →

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Introduction to frequent subranking mining

Posted on 2018-12-13 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Rankings are made in many fields, as we naturally tend to rank objects, persons or things, in different contexts. For example, in a singing or a sport competition, some judges will rank participants from worst to best and give prizes to … Continue reading →

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(video) Minimal High Utility Itemset Mining with MinFHM

Posted on 2018-10-22 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is a video presentation of the paper “Mining Minimal High Utility Itemsets” about high utility itemset mining using MinFHM. It is the first video of a series of videos that will explain various data mining algorithms. VIDEO LINK : https://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/spmf/videos/minfhm.mp4 More information … Continue reading →

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The future of pattern mining

Posted on 2018-08-10 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will talk about the future of research on pattern mining. I will also discuss some lessons learnt from the decades of research in this field and talk about research opportunities. What is the state of research on pattern mining? Over the last … Continue reading →

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