基于效用表的快速高平均效用挖掘算法

高效用项集挖掘在数据挖掘领域中受到了广泛的关注,但是高效用项集挖掘并没有考虑项集长度对效用值的影响,所以高平均效用项集挖掘被提出;而目前的一些高平均效用项集挖掘算法需要耗费大量的时间才能挖掘出有效的高平均效用项集。针对此问题,给出了一个高平均效用项集挖掘的改进算法——FHAUI。FHAUI算法将效用信息保存到效用列表中,通过效用列表的比较来挖掘出所有的高平均效用值,同时FHAUI算法还采用了一个二维矩阵来有效减少二项效用值的连接比较次数。最后将FHAUI算法在多个经典的数据集上测试。实验结果表明,FHAUI算法在效用列表的连接比较次数上有了极大的降低,同时其时间性能也有非常大提高。     

An efficient fast algorithm for discovering closed+ high utility itemsets

In recent years, high utility itemsets (HUIs) mining from the transactional databases becomes one of the most emerging research topic in the field of data mining due to its wide range of applications in online e-commerce data analysis, identifying interesting patterns in biomedical data and for cross marketing solutions in retail business. It aims to discover the itemsets with high utilities efficiently by considering item quantities in a transaction and profit values of each item. However, it produces a tremendous number of HUIs, which imposes further burden in analysis of the extracted patterns and also degrades the performance of mining methods. Mining the set of closed ⁺ high utility itemsets (CHUIs) solves this issue as it is a loss-less and condensed representation of all HUIs. In this paper, we aim to present a new algorithm for finding CHUIs from a transactional database, called the CHUM (Closed ⁺ High Utility itemset Miner), which is scalable and efficient. The proposed mining algorithm adopts a tricky aimed vertical representation of the database in order to speed up the execution time in generating itemset closures and compute their utility information without accessing the database. The proposed method makes use of the item co-occurrences strategy in order to further reduce the number of intersections needed to be performed. Several experiments are conducted on various sparse and dense datasets and the simulation results clearly show the scalability and superior performance of our algorithm as compared to those for the existing state-of-the-art CHUD (Closed ⁺ High Utility itemset Discovery) algorithm.     

Efficient algorithms for mining maximal high utility itemsets from data streams with different models

Data stream mining is an emerging research topic in the data mining field. Finding frequent itemsets is one of the most important tasks in data stream mining with wide applications like online e-business and web click-stream analysis. However, two main problems existed in relevant studies: (1) The utilities (e.g., importance or profits) of items are not considered. Actual utilities of patterns cannot be reflected in frequent itemsets. (2) Existing utility mining methods produce too many patterns and this makes it difficult for the users to filter useful patterns among the huge set of patterns. In view of this, in this paper we propose a novel framework, named GUIDE (Generation of maximal high Utility Itemsets from Data strEams), to find maximal high utility itemsets from data streams with different models, i.e., landmark, sliding window and time fading models. The proposed structure, named MUI-Tree (Maximal high Utility Itemset Tree), maintains essential information for the mining processes and the proposed strategies further facilitates the performance of GUIDE. Main contributions of this paper are as follows: (1) To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work on mining the compact form of high utility patterns from data streams; (2) GUIDE is an effective one-pass framework which meets the requirements of data stream mining; (3) GUIDE generates novel patterns which are not only high utility but also maximal, which provide compact and insightful hidden information in the data streams. Experimental results show that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms under various conditions in data stream environments on different models.     

On-shelf utility mining with negative item values

On-shelf utility mining has recently received interest in the data mining field due to its practical considerations. On-shelf utility mining considers not only profits and quantities of items in transactions but also their on-shelf time periods in stores. Profit values of items in traditional on-shelf utility mining are considered as being positive. However, in real-world applications, items may be associated with negative profit values. This paper proposes an efficient three-scan mining approach to efficiently find high on-shelf utility itemsets with negative profit values from temporal databases. In particular, an effective itemset generation method is developed to avoid generating a large number of redundant candidates and to effectively reduce the number of data scans in mining. Experimental results for several synthetic and real datasets show that the proposed approach has good performance in pruning effectiveness and execution efficiency.     

Looking into the seeds of time: Discovering temporal patterns in large transaction sets

This paper studies the problem of mining frequent itemsets along with their temporal patterns from large transaction sets. A model is proposed in which users define a large set of temporal patterns that are interesting or meaningful to them. A temporal pattern defines the set of time points where the user expects a discovered itemset to be frequent. The model is general in that (i) no constraints are placed on the interesting patterns given by the users, and (ii) two measures—inclusiveness and exclusiveness—are used to capture how well the temporal patterns match the time points given by the discovered itemsets. Intuitively, these measures indicate to what extent a discovered itemset is frequent at time points included in a temporal pattern p, but not at time points not in p. Using these two measures, one is able to model many temporal data mining problems appeared in the literature, as well as those that have not been studied. By exploiting the relationship within and between itemset space and pattern space simultaneously, a series of pruning techniques are developed to speed up the mining process. Experiments show that these pruning techniques allow one to obtain performance benefits up to 100 times over a direct extension of non-temporal data mining algorithms.     

A false negative approach to mining frequent itemsets from high speed transactional data streams

Mining frequent itemsets from transactional data streams is challenging due to the nature of the exponential explosion of itemsets and the limit memory space required for mining frequent itemsets. Given a domain of I unique items, the possible number of itemsets can be up to 2^I − 1. When the length of data streams approaches to a very large number N, the possibility of an itemset to be frequent becomes larger and difficult to track with limited memory. The existing studies on finding frequent items from high speed data streams are false-positive oriented. That is, they control memory consumption in the counting processes by an error parameter ?, and allow items with support below the specified minimum support s but above s − ? counted as frequent ones. However, such false-positive oriented approaches cannot be effectively applied to frequent itemsets mining for two reasons. First, false-positive items found increase the number of false-positive frequent itemsets exponentially. Second, minimization of the number of false-positive items found, by using a small ?, will make memory consumption large. Therefore, such approaches may make the problem computationally intractable with bounded memory consumption. In this paper, we developed algorithms that can effectively mine frequent item(set)s from high speed transactional data streams with a bound of memory consumption. Our algorithms are based on Chernoff bound in which we use a running error parameter to prune item(set)s and use a reliability parameter to control memory. While our algorithms are false-negative oriented, that is, certain frequent itemsets may not appear in the results, the number of false-negative itemsets can be controlled by a predefined parameter so that desired recall rate of frequent itemsets can be guaranteed. Our extensive experimental studies show that the proposed algorithms have high accuracy, require less memory, and consume less CPU time. They significantly outperform the existing false-positive algorithms.     

CLS-Miner: efficient and effective closed high-utility itemset mining

High-utility itemset mining (HUIM) is a popular data mining task with applications in numerous domains. However, traditional HUIM algorithms often produce a very large set of high-utility itemsets (HUIs). As a result, analyzing HUIs can be very time consuming for users. Moreover, a large set of HUIs also makes HUIM algorithms less efficient in terms of execution time and memory consumption. To address this problem, closed high-utility itemsets (CHUIs), concise and lossless representations of all HUIs, were proposed recently. Although mining CHUIs is useful and desirable, it remains a computationally expensive task. This is because current algorithms often generate a huge number of candidate itemsets and are unable to prune the search space effectively. In this paper, we address these issues by proposing a novel algorithm called CLS-Miner. The proposed algorithm utilizes the utility-list structure to directly compute the utilities of itemsets without producing candidates. It also introduces three novel strategies to reduce the search space, namely chain-estimated utility co-occurrence pruning, lower branch pruning, and pruning by coverage. Moreover, an effective method for checking whether an itemset is a subset of another itemset is introduced to further reduce the time required for discovering CHUIs. To evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm and its novel strategies, extensive experiments have been conducted on six benchmark datasets having various characteristics. Results show that the proposed strategies are highly efficient and effective, that the proposed CLS-Miner algorithmoutperforms the current state-ofthe- art CHUD and CHUI-Miner algorithms, and that CLSMiner scales linearly.     

HHUIM：一种新的启发式高效用项集挖掘方法

针对基于启发式的高效用项集挖掘算法在挖掘过程中可能丢失大量项集的问题,提出一种新的启发式高效用项集挖掘算法HHUIM。HHUIM利用哈里斯鹰优化算法进行种群的更新,能够有效减少项集的丢失。提出并设计了鹰的替换策略,解决了搜索空间较大的问题,降低了适应度函数值低于最小效用阈值的鹰的数量。此外,提出存储回溯策略,可有效防止算法收敛过快达到局部最优。大量的实验表明,所提算法优于目前最先进的启发式高效用项集挖掘算法。     

CFP-tree: A compact disk-based structure for storing and querying frequent itemsets

Frequent itemset mining is an important problem in the data mining area with a wide range of applications. Many decision support systems need to support online interactive frequent itemset mining, which is a challenging task because frequent itemset mining is a computation intensive repetitive process. One solution is to precompute frequent itemsets. In this paper, we propose a compact disk-based data structure—CFP-tree to store precomputed frequent itemsets on a disk to support online mining requests. The CFP-tree structure effectively utilizes the redundancy in frequent itemsets to save space. The compressing ratio of a CFP-tree can be as high as several thousands or even higher. Efficient algorithms for retrieving frequent itemsets from a CFP-tree, as well as efficient algorithms to construct and maintain a CFP-tree, are developed. Our performance study demonstrates that with a CFP-tree, frequent itemset mining requests can be responded to promptly.     

High utility itemset mining with techniques for reducing overestimated utilities and pruning candidates

High utility itemset mining considers the importance of items such as profit and item quantities in transactions. Recently, mining high utility itemsets has emerged as one of the most significant research issues due to a huge range of real world applications such as retail market data analysis and stock market prediction. Although many relevant algorithms have been proposed in recent years, they incur the problem of generating a large number of candidate itemsets, which degrade mining performance. In this paper, we propose an algorithm named MU-Growth (Maximum Utility Growth) with two techniques for pruning candidates effectively in mining process. Moreover, we suggest a tree structure, named MIQ-Tree (Maximum Item Quantity Tree), which captures database information with a single-pass. The proposed data structure is restructured for reducing overestimated utilities. Performance evaluation shows that MU-Growth not only decreases the number of candidates but also outperforms state-of-the-art tree-based algorithms with overestimated methods in terms of runtime with a similar memory usage.     

减少候选项集的数据流高效用项集挖掘算法

大数据环境下高效用项集挖掘算法中过多的候选项集极大地降低了算法的时空效率,提出了一种减少候选项集的数据流高效用项集挖掘算法。首先,通过数据流中当前窗口的一次扫描建立一个全局树,并降低全局树中头表入口与节点的冗余效用值;然后,基于全局树生成候选模式,基于增长算法降低局部树的候选项集效用;最终,从候选模式中选出高效用模式。基于真实数据流的实验结果表明,本算法的时空效率与内存占用比均优于其他数据流的高效用模式挖掘算法。     

Effective utility mining with the measure of average utility

Frequent-itemset mining only considers the frequency of occurrence of the items but does not reflect any other factors, such as price or profit. Utility mining is an extension of frequent-itemset mining, considering cost, profit or other measures from user preference. Traditionally, the utility of an itemset is the summation of the utilities of the itemset in all the transactions regardless of its length. The average utility measure is thus adopted in this paper to reveal a better utility effect of combining several items than the original utility measure. It is defined as the total utility of an itemset divided by its number of items within it. The average-utility itemsets, as well as the original utility itemsets, does not have the “downward-closure” property. A mining algorithm is then proposed to efficiently find the high average-utility itemsets. It uses the summation of the maximal utility among the items in each transaction with the target itemset as the upper bound to overestimate the actual average utilities of the itemset and processes it in two phases. As expected, the mined high average-utility itemsets in the proposed way will be fewer than the high utility itemsets under the same threshold. The proposed approach can thus be executed under a larger threshold than the original, thus with a more significant and relevant criterion. Experimental results also show the performance of the proposed algorithm.     

Mining itemset utilities from transaction databases

The rationale behind mining frequent itemsets is that only itemsets with high frequency are of interest to users. However, the practical usefulness of frequent itemsets is limited by the significance of the discovered itemsets. A frequent itemset only reflects the statistical correlation between items, and it does not reflect the semantic significance of the items. In this paper, we propose a utility based itemset mining approach to overcome this limitation. The proposed approach permits users to quantify their preferences concerning the usefulness of itemsets using utility values. The usefulness of an itemset is characterized as a utility constraint. That is, an itemset is interesting to the user only if it satisfies a given utility constraint. We show that the pruning strategies used in previous itemset mining approaches cannot be applied to utility constraints. In response, we identify several mathematical properties of utility constraints. Then, two novel pruning strategies are designed. Two algorithms for utility based itemset mining are developed by incorporating these pruning strategies. The algorithms are evaluated by applying them to synthetic and real world databases. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithms are effective on the databases tested.     

含负项top-k高效用项集挖掘算法

含负项高效用项集（HUI）挖掘是新兴的数据挖掘任务之一。为了挖掘满足用户需求的含负项HUI结果集,提出了含负项top-k高效用项集（THN）挖掘算法。为了提升THN算法的时空性能,提出了自动提升最小效用阈值的策略,并采用模式增长方法进行深度优先搜索;使用重新定义的子树效用和重新定义的本地效用修剪搜索空间;使用事务合并技术和数据集投影技术解决多次扫描数据库的问题;为了提高效用计数的速度,使用效用数组计数技术计算项集的效用。实验结果表明,THN算法的内存消耗约为HUINIV-Mine算法的1/60,约为FHN算法的1/2;THN算法的执行时间是FHN算法的1/10;而且该算法在密集数据集上的性能更好。     

数据流中一种基于滑动窗口的前K个

数据流频繁项集挖掘是当今数据挖掘和知识学习领域重要的研究课题之一。数据流高速性、连续性、无界性、实时性对挖掘算法在时间和空间方面提出了更高的要求。传统的数据挖掘算法由于其存储结构需要频繁地维护,其挖掘方式的精度和速度较低,空间、时间效率不高。在基于粒计算和ECLAT算法的基础上提出一种挖掘数据流滑动窗口中topK频繁项集算法,采用二进制方式存储项,利用位移运算实现增量更新,实施与运算计算项集支持度,同时利用二分查找法插入到项目序表中,输出前K个频繁项。实验结果表明,该算法在K取值不太高时具有较好的时空高     

Mining Maximal High Utility Itemsets on Dynamic Profit Databases

Abstract

To overcome the limitation of high-utility itemset mining, more compact, lossless, and concise representations of high utility itemsets (HUIs) have been proposed in previous works, such as closed HUIs (CHUIs) or maximal HUIs (MHUIs). Focusing into MHUI mining, in this article, we present efficient approaches to directly mine MHUIs from transactional databases without generating any candidates. The proposed algorithms, which all execute in one phase, utilize many efficient data structures and pruning techniques such as EUCP combined with EUCS, CUIP combined with FUCS, and the P-set structure to significantly reduce the search space and remove nonpromising itemsets, thus, increase the performance of the MHUI mining process. Furthermore, while previous works assumed that the unit profit of items is fixed, which is not practical in many real-world applications, our work resolved this issue by applying a new utility calculation into the mining process to reflect the true nature of real-world databases, thus, generating more accurate results.     

HMiner: Efficiently mining high utility itemsets

High utility itemset mining problem uses the notion of utilities to discover interesting and actionable patterns. Several data structures and heuristic methods have been proposed in the literature to efficiently mine high utility itemsets. This paper advances the state-of-the-art and presents HMiner, a high utility itemset mining method. HMiner utilizes a few novel ideas and presents a compact utility list and virtual hyperlink data structure for storing itemset information. It also makes use of several pruning strategies for efficiently mining high utility itemsets. The proposed ideas were evaluated on a set of benchmark sparse and dense datasets. The execution time improvements ranged from a modest thirty percent to three orders of magnitude across several benchmark datasets. The memory consumption requirements also showed up to an order of magnitude improvement over the state-of-the-art methods. In general, HMiner was found to work well in the dense regions of both sparse and dense benchmark datasets.     

基于模式增长方式的高效用模式挖掘算法

高效用模式挖掘是数据挖掘领域的一个重要研究内容; 由于其计算过程包含对模式的内、外效用值的处理, 计算复杂度较大, 因此挖掘算法的主要研究热点问题就是提高算法的时间效率.针对此问题, 本文给出一个基于模式增长方式的高效用模式挖掘算法HUPM-FP, 该算法可以从全局树上挖掘高效用模式, 避免产生候选项集.实验中, 采用6个典型数据集进行实验, 并和目前效率较好的算法FHM (Faster high-utility itemset mining)做了对比, 实验结果表明本文给出的算法时空效率都有较大的提高, 特别是时间效率提高较大, 可以达到1个数量级以上.     

Approximate mining of maximal frequent itemsets in data streams with different window models

A data stream is a massive, open-ended sequence of data elements continuously generated at a rapid rate. Mining data streams is more difficult than mining static databases because the huge, high-speed and continuous characteristics of streaming data. In this paper, we propose a new one-pass algorithm called DSM-MFI (stands for Data Stream Mining for Maximal Frequent Itemsets), which mines the set of all maximal frequent itemsets in landmark windows over data streams. A new summary data structure called summary frequent itemset forest (abbreviated as SFI-forest) is developed for incremental maintaining the essential information about maximal frequent itemsets embedded in the stream so far. Theoretical analysis and experimental studies show that the proposed algorithm is efficient and scalable for mining the set of all maximal frequent itemsets over the entire history of the data streams.     

Fuzzy utility mining with upper-bound measure

Fuzzy utility mining has been an emerging research issue because of its simplicity and comprehensibility. Different from traditional fuzzy data mining, fuzzy utility mining considers not only quantities of items in transactions but also their profits for deriving high fuzzy utility itemsets. In this paper, we introduce a new fuzzy utility measure with the fuzzy minimum operator to evaluate the fuzzy utilities of itemsets. Besides, an effective fuzzy utility upper-bound model based on the proposed measure is designed to provide the downward-closure property in fuzzy sets, thus reducing the search space of finding high fuzzy utility itemsets. A two-phase fuzzy utility mining algorithm, named TPFU, is also proposed and described for solving the problem of fuzzy utility mining. At last, the experimental results on both synthetic and real datasets show that the proposed algorithm has good performance.