Matrix Profile X: VALMOD - Scalable Discovery of Variable-Length Motifs in Data Series

Summary: VALMOD delivers exact, scalable discovery of variable-length motifs in data series, removing the need to predefine motif length. It speeds up discovery by up to 20x versus state-of-the-art and yields more intuitive motifs, validated on five real datasets across diverse domains. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5464
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 6.3500768e-05
Overall Rank: 4,219 | 70.66%
DOI: 10.1145/3183713.3183744

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,260	VALMOD: A Suite for Easy and Exact Detection of Variable Length Motifs in Data Series	2018	SIGMOD	9.1660405e-05
3,540	Scalable, Variable-Length Similarity Search in Data Series: The ULISSE Approach	2018	VLDB	6.9943185e-05
3,629	The Lernaean Hydra of Data Series Similarity Search: An Experimental Evaluation of the State of the Art	2019	VLDB	6.902069e-05
4,536	Data Series Progressive Similarity Search with Probabilistic Quality Guarantees	2020	SIGMOD	6.104642e-05
5,158	Coconut: A Scalable Bottom-Up Approach for Building Data Series Indexes	2018	VLDB	5.6588553e-05
5,738	Hercules Against Data Series Similarity Search	2022	VLDB	5.3478528e-05
6,687	Motiflets - Simple and Accurate Detection of Motifs in Time Series	2023	VLDB	4.9623586e-05
10,561	TELESAFE: Detecting Private/Work Boundary Crossings in Energy Consumption Trails in Telework	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,599	Time Series Motif Discovery: A Comprehensive Evaluation	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,022	CIVET: Exploring Compact Index for Variable-Length Subsequence Matching on Time Series	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
243	Locally Adaptive Dimensionality Reduction for Indexing Large Time Series Databases	2001	SIGMOD	0.00031074984
1,157	A Data-adaptive and Dynamic Segmentation Index for Whole Matching on Time Series	2013	VLDB	0.00013610658
2,427	Optimal Multi-scale Patterns in Time Series Streams	2006	SIGMOD	8.8370658e-05
4,064	Similarity-Based Queries	1995	PODS	6.4820797e-05
5,158	Coconut: A Scalable Bottom-Up Approach for Building Data Series Indexes	2018	VLDB	5.6588553e-05
5,758	Top-k Nearest Neighbor Search In Uncertain Data Series	2015	VLDB	5.339397e-05

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