Category Archives: Utility Mining

UDML 2024 Accepted papers

Today, I want to talk to you about the upcoming UDML 2024 workshop at the PAKDD 2024 conference. This year is the 6th edition of the UDML workshop. I am happy to say that this year, we received a record … Continue reading

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(video) The EFIM algorithm

Here is a new video that I have recorded to explain the EFIM algorithm for high utility itemset mining. You can watch the video here. Related to this, if you want to try the EFIM algorithm, the original source code … Continue reading

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A yet more efficient high utility itemset mining algorithm (HAMM, to appear in IEEE TKDE)

Today, I will share the good news that I have participated as co-author in a paper proposing a new algorithm for high utility itemset mining called HAMM that is very efficient, and outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithm. This is not an … Continue reading

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A Glossary of High Utility Pattern Mining

Today, I present a glossary of key terms usedin high utility itemset mining. This glossary will be useful to researchers and practitioners working on this important subtopic of pattern mining. By the way, if you are new to this research … Continue reading

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How to find cost-effective patterns in data?

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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The HUIM-Miner and FHM algorithms (video)

Today, I post one more new video to explain concepts about pattern mining. In the new video, I talk about high utility itemset mining, and explain the HUI-Miner and FHM algorithms. Those are two popular high utility itemset mining algorithms … Continue reading

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SPMF 2.52 is released

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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Brief report about UDML 2021 (4th International Workshop on Utility-Driven Mining and Learning

Today, it was the 4th International Workshop on Utility-Driven Mining and Learning (UDML 2021), held at the IEEE ICDM 2021 conference. I am a co-organizer of the workshop and will give a brief report about it. What is UDML? UDML … Continue reading

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Finding short high utility itemsets!

Today, I will talk about pattern mining. I will explain a topic that is in my opinion very important but has been largely overlooked by the research community working on high utility itemset mining. It is to integrate length constraints … Continue reading

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An Introduction to High Utility Quantitative Itemset Mining

Today, I will talk about pattern mining, a subfield of data science that aims at finding interesting patterns in data. More precisely, I will briefly describe a popular data mining task named high utility itemset mining. Then, I will describe … Continue reading

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