Tag Archives: artificial intelligence

(Video) Sequence prediction with the CPT and CPT+ Models

Posted on 2020-02-27 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I presents the CPT and CPT+ sequence prediction models in a video. Sequence prediction is an important task in data mining which consists of predicting the next symbols of a sequence. It can be used for example to predict the next word that someone will … Continue reading →

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What is the difference between data mining and machine learning?

Posted on 2019-12-24 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this short blog post, I will answer the question: what is the difference between Machine Learning and Data Mining? I will first explain what is artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining. Then, I will answer the question. What is artificial intelligence … Continue reading →

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Brief report about the MIWAI 2019 conference

Posted on 2019-11-16 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will report about the MIWAI 2019 conference (13th Multi-disciplinary International conference on Artificial Intelligence), which was held from the 17th to 19th November 2019 at the EDC hotel in Kuala Lampur Malaysia. About the MIWAI conference This is the 13th edition of the MIWAI conference. The conference is called MIWAI since originally, it started as a … Continue reading →

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Funny pictures about data mining / machine learning

Posted on 2019-08-08 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will share a few funny pictures related to data mining and machine learning that I have found online. These pictures comes from various sources (I don’t remember who created them). I will also perhaps add more later on that page Associations between … Continue reading →

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A brief report about the IEA AIE 2019 conference

Posted on 2019-07-08 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

I have just arrived Austria to attend the IEA AIE 2019 conference ( 32nd Intern. Conf. on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems), which is held in Graz from the 9th to 11th July. In this blog post, I will give a report about … Continue reading →

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Too many machine learning papers?

Posted on 2019-06-08 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

A few days ago, I have read a post on LinkedIn showing that the number of Machine Learning (ML) papers has been increasing very quickly over the last few years to about 100 ML papers per day (on Arxiv, a popular public repository … Continue reading →

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Is the next artificial intelligence winter coming?

Posted on 2018-11-25 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In recent years, there have been an increased interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI). This is due  in part to some advances for training and building neural networks, which have allowed to solve some difficult problems with greater success. This has lead … Continue reading →

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An interview with P. Fournier-Viger about AI and data mining

Posted on 2018-08-02 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

I recently was interviewed by Djavan de Clercq, a graduate student from Tsinghua University, working on Machine Learning and Optimization. The interview can be read here (on LinkedIn).   I answer ten questions related to data mining and AI research. —-Philippe Fournier-Viger is a professor of Computer Science and also the founder of the open-source data mining software SPMF, offering … Continue reading →

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IEA AIE 2018 conference (a brief report)

Posted on 2018-06-30 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week, I am attending the IEA AIE 2018 conference ( 31st International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems) in Montreal, Canada. About the conference The IEA AIE conference is an international conference on artificial intelligence and related topics. Conference opening On Tuesday morning, it was the conference opening. This year,  146 papers … Continue reading →

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Brief report about the IEA AIE 2016 conference

Posted on 2016-08-04 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week, I have attended the IEA AIE 2016 conference, held at Morioka, Japan from the 2nd to the 4th August 2016. In this blog post, I will briefly discuss the conference. About the conference IEA AIE 2016 (29th International Conference … Continue reading →

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