P. Fournier-Viger

My open-source SPMF software is now also on GitHub: github.com/philfv9/spmf-s… If you have time, please give it a *STAR* to support the project. Thanks!

@fredahshi sorry about that. I recommend to only put people with at least a PhD on a workshop committee. Also try to add people from different continents (asia, america, europe) and some high level professors. Thats from my experience organizing many workshops at KDD, ICDM, and many others.

Our workshop was rejected by #ICML2026. Despite having 3 professors (2 full profs) and 2 senior research scientists, the only reason for rejection was "you got an undergrad on the organizing committee," who is actually a highly competent incoming PhD student. (1/)

A GREAT book was written by my colleague Prof. Chan about Mastering The Academic Mindset for writing computer science research papers. The book is open-access. I highly recommend that all graduate students read it! Download: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… #academicwriting #CS

Reviewer also requested: "How about emerging security attacks relate that to your work in one paragraph with publications...followed again by ***3 irrelevant references by Mehran Mozaffari Kermani***

Today, I received reviews for one my research paper, where one reviewer suggested to cite 6 unrelated cryptography papers by a guy named Mehran Mozaffari Kermani (from USA). ... Suspicious!

Reviewer requested: "In 2-3 sentences, talk about security aspects of your work including connections with publications ... ***3 irrelevant references by Mehran Mozaffari Kermani***

In 2023, Overleaf reduced compile time for free users from 1 min. to 20 s. Now in 2025, they are reducing to 10 s. There is clearly a trend there. Any good alternatives to #overleaf ? It might be time to change.

Computer Science Journals and Conferences with the most withdrawals in 2024 …ta-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com/computer-scien… #cs #computerscience #withdrawal #retraction #papers #research #academia

We just published a new genome sequence compressor called HMG, which is faster than deep learning models and has comparable performance, using pattern mining #sequencecompression #genome #biologicaldata #biology #gene #sequence #bioinformatics …ta-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com/fast-and-effec…

@polynoamial @OpenAI As long as it is based on LLMs, it may hallucinate. So that problem would have to be solved First.

@bindureddy But it is still not "open"

o3 BEATS R1 OVERALL AND BLOWS EVERYONE ELSE AWAY IN CODING o3-mini high became the BEST LLM BY FAR when it comes to a combination of performance, speed, and price - beats o1, Sonnet, and others BY A LOT in coding - 2x cheaper than Sonnet and 15x cheaper than o1 - ~5x faster than R1 - 2nd best model right after o1 in all categories ChatLLM and CodeLLM now have o3-high if you want to play with it.

@markchen90 Yet, these models wont be "Open" like DeepSeek's models.

We will continue to improve our ability to serve models at lower cost, but we remain optimistic in our research roadmap, and will remain focused in executing on it. We're excited to ship better models to you this quarter and over the year!

Congrats to DeepSeek on producing an o1-level reasoning model! Their research paper demonstrates that they’ve independently found some of the core ideas that we did on our way to o1.

CFP: PM4B 2025： Workshop on Pattern Mining and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics @ PAKDD 2025 philippe-fournier-viger.com/PM4B_2025/ Deadline: February 22 #pakdd2025 #Bioinformatics #machinelearning #ml #ai #patternmining #pakdd

1/3 Today, an anecdote shared by an invited speaker at #NeurIPS2024 left many Chinese scholars, myself included, feeling uncomfortable. As a community, I believe we should take a moment to reflect on why such remarks in public discourse can be offensive and harmful.

@minchoi Also several glitches in the hands and people that seems to look in the wrong directions... and blowing besides the cake? 😂 But still very impressive what is achieved.

5. PROMPT: A grandmother with neatly combed grey hair stands behind a colorful birthday cake with numerous candles at a wood dining room table, expression is one of pure joy and happiness, with a happy glow in her eye. She leans forward and blows out the candles with a gentle puff, the cake has pink frosting and sprinkles and the candles cease to flicker, the grandmother wears a light blue blouse adorned with floral patterns, several happy friends and family sitting at the table can be seen celebrating, out of focus. The scene is beautifully captured, cinematic, showing a 3/4 view of the grandmother and the dining room. Warm color tones and soft lighting enhance the mood..

OpenAI Sora is wild. These are 100% AI generated from text. And generate up to 1 minute! 🤯 1. PROMPT: A corgi vlogging itself in tropical Maui.

@minchoi This one has also several defects like the guy at the bottom carrying a metal box without touching it, that drop and disappear and suddenly he flips backward, before a vehicle pass through his arm.

4. PROMPT: Tiltshift of a construction site filled with workers, equipment, and heavy machinery.

@minchoi Quite impressive. But still some issues are visible like the birds that disappear after they pass the selfie stick, the selfie stick that dont follow the neck when it moves, and the incorrect shadow.

The MDLM 2023 conference: a scam? …ta-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com/the-mdlm-2023-… #mldm2023 #mldm #conference

@Amine59110574 @sciencepp Hello, The MLDM conference which was also supposed to take place in July 2023 in Newark never happened. If you were scammed too, please contact me by direct message.

A 14-line Python script using gzip outperforming a 345m parameter transformer model is probably the most hilarious result I've seen all year. aclanthology.org/2023.findings-…