Category Archives: spmf

How to find cost-effective patterns in data?

Posted on 2023-03-31 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Have you ever wondered how to find patterns in data that are not only frequent but also profitable and cost-effective? For example, if you are an online retailer, you may want to know what products are often bought together by … Continue reading →

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Discovering the Top-K Stable Periodic Patterns in a Sequence of Events

Posted on 2023-03-24 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will give a brief introduction to the TSPIN paper about how to find stable periodic patterns in a sequence of events. This algorithm was presented in this research paper: Fournier-Viger, P., Wang Y., Yang, P., … Continue reading →

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How to Detect and Classify Metamorphic Malware with Sequential Pattern Mining (MalSPM)

Posted on 2023-03-18 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Malware are malicious software that can harm computers and networks by stealing data, encrypting files, or damaging devices. Malware are a serious threat to cybersecurity, especially when they can change their appearance to evade detection by antivirus software. This is … Continue reading →

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ASCII Art for SPMF

Posted on 2023-03-07 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, just for fun, I generated some ASCII arts for the SPMF data mining library using this tool: http://textkool.com/en/ascii-art-generator?hl=default&vl=default&font=Red%20Phoenix&text=Your%20text%20here%20 I think the result is not bad but I am not sure if I would use it: _____ _____ __ __ … Continue reading →

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SPMF’s architecture (5) The Graphical User Interface

Posted on 2023-02-14 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is the fifth post of a series of blog posts about the architecture of the SPMF data mining library. Today, I will specifically talk about the graphical user interface of SPMF, its main components and how it interacts with … Continue reading →

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SPMF 3.0: Towards even more efficiency

Posted on 2023-02-09 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will talk about the future of SPMF. I do this once in a while. Today, I will discuss on the performance of SPMF. Performance A main focus of SPMF is and has always been efficiency … Continue reading →

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SPMF’s architecture (4) The MemoryLogger

Posted on 2023-02-07 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will continue the series of blog posts to explain the architecture of the SPMF data mining library, and I will talk in particular about a module in SPMF called the MemoryLogger. This module is responsible for recording the … Continue reading →

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SPMF’s architecture (3) The Preference Manager

Posted on 2023-01-31 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is the third of a series of blog posts about the architecture of the SPMF data mining library. Today, I will explain the role of another an internal module in SPMF, called the Preference Manager. This module is used … Continue reading →

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SPMF’s architecture (2) The Main class and the Command Processor

Posted on 2023-01-19 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will continue explaining the architecture of the SPMF data mining library. In the previous post, I have introduced a key component of SPMF called the Algorithm Manager, which manages all the algorithms offered in SPMF. … Continue reading →

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How to call SPMF from Visual Basic .Net (VB)?

Posted on 2023-01-15 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will explain how to use SPMF from Visual Basic .Net. Previously, I have explained how to call SPMF from C#, from R, from C++ (on Windows) and from Python. Requirements Let me first describe the requirements. It is … Continue reading →

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