Category Archives: spmf

A New Tool for Running Performance Comparison of Algorithms in SPMF 2.54

Posted on 2022-06-14 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I am happy to announce a cool new feature in SPMF 2.54, which is a tool to automatically run performance experiments to compare several algorithms when a parameter is varied. This is a useful feature to compare algorithms when … Continue reading →

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Some upcoming features of SPMF 2.54

Posted on 2022-03-08 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will reveal some upcoming features of SPMF, which I am currently testing and will be released in the next version (2.54), probably in about 1 week. 1) The first new feature is that it will be possible to … Continue reading →

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How to call SPMF from another Java program as an external program?

Posted on 2022-03-07 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is a short blog post where I will explain how to call SPMF as an external program from another Java program to execute an algorithm. Before we start, it should be said that there are multiple ways to use … Continue reading →

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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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Towards SPMF v3.0…

Posted on 2021-10-01 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will talk a little bit about the recent improvements and future direction for the SPMF data mining library. How SPMF started? SPMF is a software project that I started around 2008 when I was a Ph.D student in … Continue reading →

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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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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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“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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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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Analyzing the source code of SPMF (5 years later)

Posted on 2019-01-12 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Five years ago, I had analyzed the source code of the SPMF data mining software using an open-source tool called CodeAnalyzer ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/codeanalyze-gpl/ ). This had provided some interesting insights about the structure of the project, especially in terms of lines of codes and code to … Continue reading →

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