Utility-driven mining is an important task in data science and has many applications in real life. High-utility sequential pattern mining (HUSPM) is one kind of utility-driven mining. It aims to discover all sequential patterns with high utility. However, the existing algorithms of HUSPM can not provide a relatively accurate probability to deal with some scenarios for prediction or recommendation. High-utility sequential rule mining (HUSRM) is proposed to discover all sequential rules with high

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... utility and high confidence. There is only one algorithm proposed for HUSRM, which is not enough efficient. In this paper, we propose a faster algorithm called US-Rule, to efficiently mine high-utility sequential rules. It utilizes the rule estimated utility co-occurrence pruning strategy (REUCP) to avoid meaningless computations. Moreover, to improve its efficiency on dense and long sequence datasets, four tighter upper bounds (LEEU, REEU, LERSU, RERSU) and corresponding pruning strategies (LEEUP, REEUP, LERSUP, RERSUP) are designed. US-Rule also proposes the rule estimated utility recomputing pruning strategy (REURP) to deal with sparse datasets. At last, a large number of experiments on different datasets compared to the state-of-the-art algorithm demonstrate that US-Rule can achieve better performance in terms of execution time, memory consumption, and scalability.