基于正负效用划分的高效用模式挖掘方法综述

高效用模式挖掘（HUPM）是新兴的数据科学研究内容之一,通过考虑事务数据库中项的单位利润和数量,以提取出更有用的信息。传统的HUPM方法假定所有项的效用值均为正,但是在实际应用中,某些数据项的效用值可能为负（如商品因产生亏损而导致利润值为负）,含负项的模式挖掘与仅含正项的模式挖掘同样重要。首先,阐述了HUPM的相关概念,并分别给出相应正负效用的实例;然后,以正与负角度划分了HUPM方法,其中带有正效用的模式挖掘方法进一步以动态与静态的数据库新颖角度划分,带有负效用的模式挖掘方法中包括了基于先验、基于树、基于效用列表和基于数组等关键技术,并从不同方面对这些方法进行了讨论和总结;最后,给出了现有HUPM方法的不足和下一步研究方向。     

An efficient algorithm for mining top-<Emphasis Type="Italic">k</Emphasis> on-shelf high utility itemsets

High on-shelf utility itemset (HOU) mining is an emerging data mining task which consists of discovering sets of items generating a high profit in transaction databases. The task of HOU mining is more difficult than traditional high utility itemset (HUI) mining, because it also considers the shelf time of items, and items having negative unit profits. HOU mining can be used to discover more useful and interesting patterns in real-life applications than traditional HUI mining. Several algorithms have been proposed for this task. However, a major drawback of these algorithms is that it is difficult for users to find a suitable value for the minimum utility threshold parameter. If the threshold is set too high, not enough patterns are found. And if the threshold is set too low, too many patterns will be found and the algorithm may use an excessive amount of time and memory. To address this issue, we propose to address the problem of top-k on-shelf high utility itemset mining, where the user directly specifies k, the desired number of patterns to be output instead of specifying a minimum utility threshold value. An efficient algorithm named KOSHU (fast top-K on-shelf high utility itemset miner) is proposed to mine the top-k HOUs efficiently, while considering on-shelf time periods of items, and items having positive and/or negative unit profits. KOSHU introduces three novel strategies, named efficient estimated co-occurrence maximum period rate pruning, period utility pruning and concurrence existing of a pair 2-itemset pruning to reduce the search space. KOSHU also incorporates several novel optimizations and a faster method for constructing utility-lists. An extensive performance study on real-life and synthetic datasets shows that the proposed algorithm is efficient both in terms of runtime and memory consumption and has excellent scalability.     

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.     

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.     

Applying the maximum utility measure in high utility sequential pattern mining

Recently, high utility sequential pattern mining has been an emerging popular issue due to the consideration of quantities, profits and time orders of items. The utilities of subsequences in sequences in the existing approach are difficult to be calculated due to the three kinds of utility calculations. To simplify the utility calculation, this work then presents a maximum utility measure, which is derived from the principle of traditional sequential pattern mining that the count of a subsequence in the sequence is only regarded as one. Hence, the maximum measure is properly used to simplify the utility calculation for subsequences in mining. Meanwhile, an effective upper-bound model is designed to avoid information losing in mining, and also an effective projection-based pruning strategy is designed as well to cause more accurate sequence-utility upper-bounds of subsequences. The indexing strategy is also developed to quickly find the relevant sequences for prefixes in mining, and thus unnecessary search time can be reduced. Finally, the experimental results on several datasets show the proposed approach has good performance in both pruning effectiveness and execution efficiency.     

An incremental mining algorithm for high utility itemsets

Association-rule mining, which is based on frequency values of items, is the most common topic in data mining. In real-world applications, customers may, however, buy many copies of products and each product may have different factors, such as profits and prices. Only mining frequent itemsets in binary databases is thus not suitable for some applications. Utility mining is thus presented to consider additional measures, such as profits or costs according to user preference. In the past, a two-phase mining algorithm was designed for fast discovering high utility itemsets from databases. When data come intermittently, the approach needs to process all the transactions in a batch way. In this paper, an incremental mining algorithm for efficiently mining high utility itemsets is proposed to handle the above situation. It is based on the concept of the fast-update (FUP) approach, which was originally designed for association mining. The proposed approach first partitions itemsets into four parts according to whether they are high transaction-weighted utilization itemsets in the original database and in the newly inserted transactions. Each part is then executed by its own procedure. Experimental results also show that the proposed algorithm executes faster than the two-phase batch mining algorithm in the intermittent data environment     

HUC-Prune: an efficient candidate pruning technique to mine high utility patterns

Traditional frequent pattern mining methods consider an equal profit/weight for all items and only binary occurrences (0/1) of the items in transactions. High utility pattern mining becomes a very important research issue in data mining by considering the non-binary frequency values of items in transactions and different profit values for each item. However, most of the existing high utility pattern mining algorithms suffer in the level-wise candidate generation-and-test problem and generate too many candidate patterns. Moreover, they need several database scans which are directly dependent on the maximum candidate length. In this paper, we present a novel tree-based candidate pruning technique, called HUC-Prune (High Utility Candidates Prune), to solve these problems. Our technique uses a novel tree structure, called HUC-tree (High Utility Candidates tree), to capture important utility information of the candidate patterns. HUC-Prune avoids the level-wise candidate generation process by adopting a pattern growth approach. In contrast to the existing algorithms, its number of database scans is completely independent of the maximum candidate length. Extensive experimental results show that our algorithm is very efficient for high utility pattern mining and it outperforms the existing algorithms.     

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。     

一种快速挖掘Top-k高效用模式的算法

高效用模式挖掘是数据挖掘领域的一个基础研究方向,其中关于top-k高效用模式的挖掘算法也越来越多,其中k指的是用户需要挖掘的高效用模式的个数。它们可以归纳为两类：二阶段top-k算法和一阶段top-k算法。两者的主要区别是,前者在挖掘的过程中会产生大量的候选模式,这个是影响算法性能的主要因素;后者在挖掘的过程中不产生候选模式。为了更加高效地挖掘效用值最高的k个模式,一阶段算法TKHUP被提出。该算法在进行数据挖掘的过程中主要是通过四个有效策略来减少时间和空间消耗的。通过大量的实验数据表明,TKHUP在时间性能上优于其它top-k高效用模式挖掘算法。     

A framework for mining interesting high utility patterns with a strong frequency affinity

High utility pattern (HUP) mining is one of the most important research issues in data mining. Although HUP mining extracts important knowledge from databases, it requires long calculations and multiple database scans. Therefore, HUP mining is often unsuitable for real-time data processing schemes such as data streams. Furthermore, many HUPs may be unimportant due to the poor correlations among the items inside of them. Hence,the fast discovery of fewer but more important HUPs would be very useful in many practical domains. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to introduce a very useful measure, called frequency affinity, among the items in a HUP and the concept of interesting HUP with a strong frequency affinity for the fast discovery of more applicable knowledge. Moreover, we propose a new tree structure, utility tree based on frequency affinity (UTFA), and a novel algorithm, high utility interesting pattern mining (HUIPM), for single-pass mining of HUIPs from a database. Our approach mines fewer but more valuable HUPs, significantly reduces the overall runtime of existing HUP mining algorithms and is applicable to real-time data processing. Extensive performance analyses show that the proposed HUIPM algorithm is very efficient and scalable for interesting HUP mining with a strong frequency affinity.     

带负项值的onshelf效用项集并行挖掘算法

为了提高带负项值的onshelf效用项集挖掘算法的挖掘效率，提出带负项值的onshelf效用项集并行挖掘算法DTPHoun，算法基于MapReduce框架，充分利用其onshelf时间段因素，将原始事务数据库按照时间段进行分片。算法将挖掘过程转化为MapReduce工作，Map阶段在分片数据库中挖掘候选项集，Reduce阶段并行计算候选项集的onshelf效用值。实验结果表明，算法取得了较高的挖掘效率。     

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.     

动态数据库中增量Top-k高效用模式挖掘算法

高效用模式的挖掘需要设定一个合适的阈值,而阈值设定对用户来说并非易事,阈值过小导致产生大量低效用模式,阈值过大可能导致无高效用模式生成。因而Top-k高效用模式挖掘方法被提出,k指效用值前k大的模式。并且大量的高效用挖掘研究仅针对静态数据库,但在实际应用中常常会遇到新事务的加入的情况。针对以上问题,提出了增量的Top-k高效用挖掘算法TOPK-HUP-INS。算法通过四个有效的策略,在增量数据的情况下,有效地挖掘用户所需数量的高效用模式。通过在不同数据集上的对比实验表明TOPK-HUP-INS算法在时空性能上表现优异。     

具有数量特征的利润约束关联规则发现

关联规则发现是数据挖掘的重要研究内容之一,具有广泛的应用。在以前的研究中,关联规则发现算法一般都没有考虑项目的销售数量。而在实际中,相关联项目的销售总利润对于商家来说非常重要。因此,在关联规则发现中引入销售数量的利润约束问题显得很必要。文章针对此问题提出了项集事务利润和事务利润的概念,并对项集利润和支持期望的概念进行了重新定义,接着给出了具有数量特征的利润约束关联规则挖掘问题的性质和定理,最后根据该问题的性质给出了高效的求解算法。     

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.     

精简高效用模式挖掘综述

全集高效用模式挖掘算法存在的关键问题之一是会产生冗余的高效用项集,这将导致用户很难在大量的高效用项集中发现有用的信息,严重降低了高效用模式挖掘算法的性能。为解决这一问题,衍生出了精简高效用模式挖掘算法,其主要包括最大高效用模式、闭合高效用模式、top-k高效用模式以及三者之间的组合高效用模式挖掘算法等。首先,介绍了精简高效用模式的相关问题描述;然后,从有无候选项集生成、一两阶段挖掘方法、数据结构类型和剪枝策略等角度,重点分类总结了精简高效用模式挖掘方法;最后,给出了精简高效用模式的进一步研究方向,包括处理基于负项的高效用精简模式、处理基于时间的高效用精简模式及处理动态复杂的数据等。     

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。     

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.     

频繁和高效用项集挖掘

对从事务数据库中挖掘有意义的项集的研究已超过10年.然而,大多数的研究要么使用频繁度或支持度(如频繁项集挖掘),要么使用效用值或利润(如高效用项集挖掘)作为主要的衡量标准.单独使用这两种衡量方式都有各自的局限性,比如频繁度很高的项集其效用值有可能很低,而效用值很高的项集其频繁度往往很低,将这些项集推荐给用户没有意义.将这两种衡量标准综合考虑,希望找出那些频繁度和效用值都很高的项集.该项工作最大的挑战是效用值既不满足单调性也不满足反单调性.因此,提出了高效算法FHIMA.FHIMA采用PrefixSpan的思想,挖掘时能避免产生非频繁的候选项集.此外,还根据效用和质量上界的一些性质,有效地缩小了搜索空间,极大地提高了FHIMA算法的效率.     

基于MapReduce的Top-k高效用模式挖掘算法

摘 要: 高效用模式挖掘被广泛应用于数据挖掘领域。为了挖掘指定数量的高效用模式,一些基于树结构和效用表结构的top-k高效用挖掘算法被提出,但前者在挖掘过程中产生了大量候选模式,后者在效用模式增长时需要进行多次比较。同时,由于在信息社会,数据量呈爆炸性增长。因此,在数据集过大的情况下,挖掘高效用模式需以大量存储空间以及计算开销为代价。为了解决这两个问题,基于MapReduce的top-k高效用模式挖掘算法（TKHUP_MaR）被提出。该算法通过两次扫描数据库,利用三次MapReduce来实现并行top-k高效用模式的挖掘。通过实验表明TKHUP_MaR 算法在并行挖掘top-k高效用模式的过程中是有效的。