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In the signal processing and statistics literature, the minimum description length (MDL) principle is a popular tool for choosing model complexity. Successful examples include signal denoising and variable selection in linear regression,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-28 Zhenyu Wei , Raymond K. W. Wong , Thomas C. M. Lee

State-of-the-art neural networks can be trained to become remarkable solutions to many problems. But while these architectures can express symbolic, perfect solutions, trained models often arrive at approximations instead. We show that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Matan Abudy , Orr Well , Emmanuel Chemla , Roni Katzir , Nur Lan

Due to the large amount of textual information available on Internet, it is of paramount relevance to use techniques that find relevant and concise content. A typical task devoted to the identification of informative sentences in documents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Jorge V. Tohalino , Diego R. Amancio

Summarizing event sequences is a key aspect of data mining. Most existing methods neglect conditional dependencies and focus on discovering sequential patterns only. In this paper, we study the problem of discovering both conditional and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Aleena Siji , Joscha Cüppers , Osman Ali Mian , Jilles Vreeken

Data mining is the task of discovering interesting patterns from large amounts of data. There are many data mining tasks, such as classification, clustering, association rule mining, and sequential pattern mining. Sequential pattern mining…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-02-08 Mahdi Esmaeili , Fazekas Gabor

This is about the Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle applied to pattern mining. The length of this description is kept to the minimum. Mining patterns is a core task in data analysis and, beyond issues of efficient enumeration, the…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Esther Galbrun

Contextual Markov Decision Processes (CMDPs) offer a framework for sequential decision-making under external signals, but existing methods often fail to generalize in high-dimensional or unstructured contexts, resulting in excessive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Peidong Liu , Junjiang Lin , Shaowen Wang , Yao Xu , Haiqing Li , Xuhao Xie , Siyi Wu , Hao Li

The need to analyze information from streams arises in a variety of applications. One of its fundamental research directions is to mine sequential patterns over data streams. Current studies mine series of items based on the presence of the…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Thomas Guyet , Wenbin Zhang , Albert Bifet

In this correspondence, we focus on the performance analysis of the widely-used minimum description length (MDL) source enumeration technique in array processing. Unfortunately, available theoretical analysis exhibit deviation from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Farzan Haddadi , Mohammadreza Malekmohammadi , Mohammad Mahdi Nayebi , Mohammad Reza Aref

We address the problem of automatically constructing a thesaurus (hierarchically clustering words) based on corpus data. We view the problem of clustering words as that of estimating a joint distribution over the Cartesian product of a…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Hang Li , Naoki Abe

Discovering episodes, frequent sets of events from a sequence has been an active field in pattern mining. Traditionally, a level-wise approach is used to discover all frequent episodes. While this technique is computationally feasible it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Nikolaj Tatti

Fast and effective unsupervised anomaly detection algorithms have been proposed for categorical data based on the minimum description length (MDL) principle. However, they can be ineffective when detecting anomalies in heterogeneous…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-06-16 James Cheney , Xavier Gombau , Ghita Berrada , Sidahmed Benabderrahmane

Traditional sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models and other variations of the attention-mechanism such as hierarchical attention have been applied to the text summarization problem. Though there is a hierarchy in the way humans use language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Rajeev Bhatt Ambati , Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay , Prasenjit Mitra

Frequent episode discovery is a popular framework for pattern discovery in event streams. An episode is a partially ordered set of nodes with each node associated with an event type. Efficient (and separate) algorithms exist for episode…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-12-11 Avinash Achar , Srivatsan Laxman , Raajay Viswanathan , P. S. Sastry

Discovering patterns in a sequence is an important aspect of data mining. One popular choice of such patterns are episodes, patterns in sequential data describing events that often occur in the vicinity of each other. Episodes also enforce…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Nikolaj Tatti , Boris Cule

We propose a general framework for topic-specific summarization of large text corpora, and illustrate how it can be used for analysis in two quite different contexts: an OSHA database of fatality and catastrophe reports (to facilitate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Luke Miratrix , Robin Ackerman

Engine assembly is a complex and heavily automated distributed-control process, with large amounts of faults data logged everyday. We describe an application of temporal data mining for analyzing fault logs in an engine assembly plant.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-04-30 Srivatsan Laxman , Basel Shadid , P. S. Sastry , K. P. Unnikrishnan

Now a days, data mining and knowledge discovery methods are applied to a variety of enterprise and engineering disciplines to uncover interesting patterns from databases. The study of Sequential patterns is an important data mining problem…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-06-24 Jigyasa Bisaria , Namita Shrivastava , K. R. Pardasani

An efficient representation of observed data has many benefits in various domains of engineering and science. Representing static data sets, such as images, is a living branch in machine learning and eases downstream tasks, such as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Friedrich Solowjow , Arash Mehrjou , Bernhard Schölkopf , Sebastian Trimpe

In previous work we developed a method of learning Bayesian Network models from raw data. This method relies on the well known minimal description length (MDL) principle. The MDL principle is particularly well suited to this task as it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Wai Lam , Fahiem Bacchus