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By applying this improved algorithm to the field of high utility itemsets mining, it provides new solutions to optimization problems and data mining problems. To evaluate the performance of the proposed WHO, a large number of experiments are conducted on six datasets, chess, connect, mushroom, accidents, foodmart, and retail, in terms of convergence, recall rates, and runtime. The experimental results show that the convergence of the proposed WHO is optimal in five datasets and has the shortest runtime in all datasets. 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