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We need to investigate whether the DFS propagation algorithm described in RFC 2094 was ever truly implemented in rustc's historical versions, rather than just being a prototype or design-stage concept ...

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Abstract: Partial periodic-frequent pattern mining is a critical technique in the data mining field. This technique finds all frequent patterns demonstrating partial periodicity within temporal ...

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