New method detects outliers in object-relational data.
problem Detecting outliers in complex object-relational data.
method Exceptional Model Mining framework applied to object-relational data with probabilistic models and Bayesian networks.
result Novel metric based on likelihood ratio improves outlier detection accuracy.
This study analyzes global terrorist attacks using data mining techniques.
problem Efficient analysis and prediction of global terrorist attacks.
method Data mining classification techniques, including Lazy Tree, Multilayer Perceptron, Multiclass, and Naïve Bayes.
result Identified trends in attack frequency and locations.
Algorithm identifies controversial regions in classifier disagreements.
problem Understanding regions of high disagreement among classifiers.
method Exceptional Model Mining framework.
result Shows usefulness in identifying new phenomena in well-explored datasets.
Decision trees improve performance in various fields.
problem Improving performance in machine learning and data mining.
method Introduce tree-based models and training techniques.
result Highlight probabilistic characteristics and practical benefits.
Game-theoretic analysis of mining gaps in blockchain systems.
problem Strategic mining behavior and its impact on blockchain stability.
method Game-theoretic model and Nash equilibrium analysis.
result Mining gaps can destabilize blockchain systems, especially with decreasing block rewards.
Alpha-GPT mines new trading signals with human-AI interaction.
problem Mining new alphas for effective trading signals.
method Human-AI interaction and prompt engineering algorithmic framework.
result Demonstrates Alpha-GPT's effectiveness in generating creative, insightful, and effective alphas.
The paper explores how mining costs, rewards, and blockchain security are interconnected.
problem Understanding the interdependencies between mining costs, mining rewards, and blockchain security.
method Theoretical derivation and empirical analysis using daily crypto market data and autoregressive distributed lag approach.
result Cryptocurrency price and mining rewards are intrinsically linked to blockchain security outcomes.
Data preprocessing improves data quality for robust data mining.
problem Noisy and incomplete data hinders data mining models.
method Overview of data cleaning, transformation, and preprocessing methods.
result Preprocessing significantly affects data mining model performance.
This paper categorizes and analyzes existing outlying aspect mining methods.
problem Finding unique features in data objects that differ from others.
method Grouping and analyzing existing outlying aspect mining approaches in three categories.
result Comparison of strengths, weaknesses, and time complexities of different techniques.
Game theory shows miners' hardware improvements don't centralize mining.
problem Decentralization of cryptocurrency mining.
method Game-theoretical model of mining efficiency and competition.
result Advancements in mining hardware efficiency do not lead to centralization.
DataLearner simplifies data mining on Android devices.
problem Lack of general-purpose data-mining tools for mobile devices.
method Augments Weka engine with Charles Sturt University algorithms, providing 40 mining algorithms.
result Delivers classification accuracy similar to PCs/laptops with acceptable speed and battery life.
This paper analyzes the profitability of selfish mining on blockchain, considering the risk of ruin.
problem The profitability of selfish mining on blockchain, considering the risk of ruin.
method Formulated a stochastic model and used tools from applied probability and analysis to determine expected profit.
result Explicit expressions for expected profit under different scenarios were derived, identifying conditions for selfish mining as a strategic advantage.
MINE uses neural networks to estimate mutual information efficiently.
problem Estimating mutual information between high-dimensional variables.
method Gradient descent over neural networks for mutual information estimation.
result MINE is linearly scalable in dimensionality and sample size, and is strongly consistent.
Paper mines rank data patterns from rankings.
problem Mining rank data patterns from rankings.
method Proposes algorithms for frequent rankings and dependencies.
result Experimental validation of algorithms on synthetic and real data.
Agricultural research has been profited by technical advances such as automation, data mining. Today, data mining is used in a vast areas and many off-the-shelf data mining system products and domain specific data mining application soft wares are available, but data mining in agricultural soil datasets is a relatively…
This paper tracks coin circulation in Bitcoin to identify miners and analyze mining pool structures.
problem Identifying and understanding Bitcoin miners and their profit distribution schemes.
method Constructs fresh coin circulation networks and uses a heuristic algorithm to compare networks from different mining pools.
result Infers common profit distribution schemes of Bitcoin mining pools and observes an increasing trend in miner numbers.
Study shows Bitcoin mining with surplus electricity can boost KEPCO's financial stability.
problem Improving energy resource efficiency and reducing KEPCO's debt.
method Utilized surplus electricity for Bitcoin mining using Antminer S21 XP Hyd, analyzed with Random Forest Regressor and Long Short-Term Memory models.
result Bitcoin mining with surplus electricity generates economic revenue, minimizes energy loss, and resolves payment issues for KEPCO.
This work improves deep metric learning by online soft mining and class-aware attention.
problem Slow convergence and poor performance due to a large fraction of trivial samples in deep metric learning.
method Online Soft Mining (OSM) and Class-Aware Attention (CAA) to select and focus on relevant samples.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on fine-grained visual categorization and video-based person re-identification datasets.
A new framework for mining high utility patterns in interval-based sequences.
problem Mining patterns in events that persist over varying time intervals and considering event utility.
method Integrates utility into interval-based sequences and proposes HUIPMiner algorithm with pruning strategy.
result HUIPMiner efficiently finds high utility patterns in real datasets.
Data mining enhances a heuristic for the Minimum Latency Problem.
problem Finding optimal solutions for the Minimum Latency Problem efficiently.
method Combining GRASP with data mining to find frequent patterns in high-quality solutions.
result Improved solution quality and reduced computational time compared to existing methods.
Safe Pattern Pruning reduces pattern explosion in predictive pattern mining.
problem Exponential growth of patterns in structured data.
method Safe Pattern Pruning (SPP) method.
result Effective model building in practical data analysis.
The study compares ASP encodings for sequential pattern mining tasks.
problem Efficiency of Answer Set Programming (ASP) encodings for sequential pattern mining.
method Two representations of embeddings (fill-gaps vs skip-gaps) and various types of patterns were tested.
result Fill-gaps strategy is more efficient on real problems due to lower memory consumption.
This document describes an approach to the problem of predicting dangerous seismic events in active coal mines up to 8 hours in advance. It was developed as a part of the AAIA'16 Data Mining Challenge: Predicting Dangerous Seismic Events in Active Coal Mines. The solutions presented consist of ensembles of various pred…
In January 3, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto gave rise to the "Bitcoin Block Chain" creating the first block of the chain hashing on his computers central processing unit (CPU). Since then, the hash calculations to mine Bitcoin have been getting more and more complex, and consequently the mining hardware evolved to adapt to th…
This paper discusses issues in mining user behavioral rules for context-aware mobile apps.
problem Mining contextual behavioral rules from smartphone data.
method Addressing quality of data, relevancy of contexts, discretization, rule discovery, semantic understanding, and dynamic rule updating.
result Potential solutions for mining user behavioral rules for context-aware mobile apps.
MotiFiesta learns network motifs efficiently.
problem Efficiently identifying network motifs in real-world datasets.
method Formulated as a node labelling task, using machine learning.
result Demonstrated efficient motif discovery on challenging datasets.
Study shows Bitcoin security tied to mining rewards and prices.
problem Understanding Bitcoin security's dependency on market outcomes.
method Used ARDL approach with daily blockchain and Bitcoin data from 2014-2019.
result Bitcoin security outcomes linked to Bitcoin price and mining rewards.
A new tool, matrix profile, finds all pair similarities in time series data.
problem Finding all pair similarities in time series data.
method Near universal time series data mining tool called matrix profile.
result Matrix profile solves the all-pairs-similarity-search problem for time series subsequences.
FedSLIM optimizes compact pattern models across distributed databases without sharing raw data.
problem Privacy-preserving federated descriptive analytics for data silos.
method Federated MDL-based framework using SLIM principle.
result FedSLIM variants preserve high-quality compression structure and recover globally informative patterns.
Peer-reviewed research and mined data predict stock returns similarly.
problem Predicting stock returns using research quality.
method Cross-sectional analysis of 29,000 accounting ratios with t-statistics > 2.0.
result Post-sample performance is largely independent of whether the predictor is peer-reviewed or mined.
Proposes SCR-Apriori for efficient mining of SCR-patterns.
problem Mining high-quality `Set of Contrasting Rules'-pattern (SCR-pattern) efficiently.
method Integrates SCR-pattern structure into Apriori algorithm to prune search space.
result Significantly reduces computational cost compared to state-of-the-art.
QuantaAlpha uses evolutionary algorithms to mine financial alpha robustly across market distributions.
problem Challenges in alpha mining due to market noise and regime shifts.
method Evolutionary framework treating each mining run as a trajectory, mutation, crossover, targeted revision, and reuse of effective patterns.
result Consistent gains over strong baselines and prior systems, achieving high IC and ARR.
AlphaEval evaluates alpha mining models efficiently and comprehensively.
problem Lack of systematic evaluation for alpha mining models.
method Unified, parallelizable evaluation framework assessing predictive power, stability, robustness, financial logic, and diversity.
result AlphaEval achieves evaluation consistency comparable to comprehensive backtesting, providing more comprehensive insights and higher efficiency.
Recent sequential pattern mining methods have used the minimum description length (MDL) principle to define an encoding scheme which describes an algorithm for mining the most compressing patterns in a database. We present a novel subsequence interleaving model based on a probabilistic model of the sequence database, w…
AlphaForge mines and dynamically combines alpha factors for better investment performance.
problem Inconsistency and inflexibility of fixed factor weights in alpha factor mining.
method Generative-predictive neural network for factor generation and dynamic weight adjustment.
result Demonstrated superior performance in formulaic alpha factor mining and portfolio returns.
The purpose of this study is to estimate the production function and examine the structure of production in the mining sector of Iran. Several studies have already been conducted in estimating production functions of various economic sectors; however, less attention has been paid to mining sectors. After examining the …
GCBS improves contrastive learning performance efficiently.
problem Efficiently mining hard negatives for contrastive learning.
method Global Contrastive Batch Sampling (GCBS) approximates batch assignment problem.
result GCBS improves state-of-the-art performance in sentence embedding and code-search tasks.
Data mining techniques predict breast cancer types with high accuracy.
problem Early detection of breast cancer to reduce mortality rates.
method Twelve classification algorithms applied to the Breast Cancer Wisconsin dataset.
result High accuracy in predicting malignant and benign breast cancer.
Automates text mining by learning effective representations from raw text.
problem Limited automation in text mining for non-experts.
method Meta-learning approach to automatically obtain text representations.
result Proposed methodology yields highly effective text classification pipelines.
AlphaSAGE mines diverse alphas via GFlowNets, overcoming RL issues.
problem Reward sparsity, inadequate sequential representations, and single optimal mode issues in RL for alphas.
method Structure-aware encoder (RGCN), GFlowNets, dense reward structure.
result Empirically outperforms existing baselines in mining diverse alphas.
New method for faster TPM from multivariate time series.
problem Mining predictive complex temporal patterns from multivariate time series.
method Fast Temporal Pattern Mining with Extended Vertical Lists.
result Significantly faster performance than previous algorithm.
In the field of exploratory data mining, local structure in data can be described by patterns and discovered by mining algorithms. Although many solutions have been proposed to address the redundancy problems in pattern mining, most of them either provide succinct pattern sets or take the interests of the user into acc…
With the growing interest on Network Analysis, Relational Data Mining is becoming an emphasized domain of Data Mining. This paper addresses the problem of extracting representative elements from a relational dataset. After defining the notion of degree of representativeness, computed using the Borda aggregation procedu…
Paper introduces Privacy Mining Approach (PMA) to reveal privacy from smart homes.
problem Privacy disclosure from IoT-based smart homes for elders.
method Conducts deductions and analyses on sensor datasets to reveal privacy.
result PMA can deduce a global sensor topology and disclose elders' privacy.
Paper presents a framework to automatically discover constraints from data.
problem Discovering constraints from data for structured output prediction.
method Formulates structured output prediction as ILP, mines constraints by estimating polytopes of feasible set.
result Successfully identifies feasible sets and constraints for various tasks.
Confidence intervals improve evaluation of binary prediction rules in data mining.
problem Uncertainty in performance measures estimation from finite datasets.
method Asymptotic normal approximations for confidence intervals, with a blurring correction.
result Improved finite sample coverage probabilities and general performance measures inference.
This paper introduces C-DSL to improve data mining outcomes by considering context.
problem Data collection ambiguities, data imbalance, hidden biases, lack of domain info, and data incompleteness.
method Developed Context-Driven Data Science Lifecycle (C-DSL) to address data quality issues.
result Tangible improvements to data mining outcomes were achieved through C-DSL.
Analyzes quantitative finance papers from arXiv using text mining and NLP.
problem Understanding trends and insights in quantitative finance research.
method Text mining, natural language processing, topic modeling.
result Identified most cited researchers and journals in quantitative finance.