Tag Archives: sequential pattern

New version of SPMF: 2.63!

Posted on 2025-08-05 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is just a short blog post to let you know that SPMF 2.63 is released on the SPMF website, with some new features such as the Visual Pattern Viewer (to display patterns visually), and also some new algorithms and … Continue reading →

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Update on SPMF next version: the visual pattern viewer

Posted on 2025-06-02 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

I am still working on the upcoming version of SPMF. There is still much work todo. Following the previous post, I would like to give you a glimpse of the new visual pattern viewer that is under development for SPMF. … Continue reading →

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The story of the most influential paper award of PAKDD 2024

Posted on 2024-05-12 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Recently, I have attended the PAKDD 2024 conference, where I was happy to receive the most influential paper award with my co-authors. This award is a test of time type of award that is given to the paper from PAKDD … Continue reading →

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Test your knowledge of sequential rule mining!

Posted on 2023-05-25 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Do you know about sequential rule mining? It is a popular task in pattern mining that aims at finding rules in sequences. In this blog post, I will give a list of 8 questions and answers to evaluate your knowledge … Continue reading →

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Test your knowledge about sequential pattern mining!

Posted on 2023-05-11 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Sequential pattern mining is a data mining technique used to discover frequent sequences or patterns in data. I have prepared a short test of 10 questions to evaluate your knowledge of sequential pattern mining. The test is not very hard. … Continue reading →

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Free Pattern Mining Course

Posted on 2023-04-13 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Hi all, this is to let you know that I have developed a free pattern mining course that you can watch online.  The course is designed to introduce students or researchers to the different topics of pattern mining and explain … 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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New videos about pattern mining

Posted on 2022-02-19 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I share with you some new videos that I have recorded about pattern mining. The first videos gives an introduction to some important topics: sequential pattern mining, frequent subgraph mining and high utility itemset mining, while the lastvideo explains … Continue reading →

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An Introduction to Episode Mining

Posted on 2021-08-22 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will talk about pattern mining (finding patterns in data) data mining task called episode mining. It aim at discovering interesting patterns in a long sequence of symbols or events. Sequence data is an important type … Continue reading →

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Analyzing the COVID-19 genome with AI and data mining techniques (paper + data + code)

Posted on 2021-02-18 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Recently, my team has been working on analyzing COVID-19 genome sequences using pattern mining and other data mining and AI techniques. We have recently published a paper in the Applied Intelligence journal about this. In this blog post, I will … Continue reading →

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