TopPI: An efficient algorithm for item-centric mining

In this paper, we introduce item-centric mining, a new semantics for mining long-tailed datasets. Our algorithm, TopPI, finds for each item its top-k most frequent closed itemsets. While most mining algorithms focus on the globally most frequent itemsets, TopPI guarantees that each item is represented in the results, regardless of its frequency in the database.TopPI allows users to efficiently explore Web data, answering questions such as “what are the k most common sets of songs downloaded together with the ones of my favorite artist?”. When processing retail data consisting of 55 million supermarket receipts, TopPI finds the itemset “milk, puff pastry” that appears 10,315 times, but also “frangipane, puff pastry” and “nori seaweed, wasabi, sushi rice” that occur only 1120 and 163 times, respectively. Our experiments with analysts from the marketing department of our retail partner demonstrate that item-centric mining discover valuable itemsets. We also show that TopPI can serve as a building-block to approximate complex itemset ranking measures such as the p-value.Thanks to efficient enumeration and pruning strategies, TopPI avoids the search space explosion induced by mining low support itemsets. We show how TopPI can be parallelized on multi-cores and distributed on Hadoop clusters. Our experiments on datasets with different characteristics show the superiority of TopPI when compared to standard top-k solutions, and to Parallel FP-Growth, its closest competitor.     

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.     

Meta itemset: a new concise representation of frequent itemset

The sheer size of all frequent itemsets is one challenging problem in data mining research. Based on both closed itemset and maximal itemset, meta itemset which is a new concise representation of frequent itemset is proposed. It is proved that both closed itemset and maximal itemset are special cases of meta itemset. The set of all closed itemsets and the set of all maximal itemsets form the upper bound and the lower bound of the set of all meta itemsets. Then, property and pruning strategies of meta itemset are discussed. Finally, an efficient algorithm for mining meta itemset is proposed. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is effective and efficient.     

An efficient algorithm for mining temporal high utility itemsets from data streams

Utility of an itemset is considered as the value of this itemset, and utility mining aims at identifying the itemsets with high utilities. The temporal high utility itemsets are the itemsets whose support is larger than a pre-specified threshold in current time window of the data stream. Discovery of temporal high utility itemsets is an important process for mining interesting patterns like association rules from data streams. In this paper, we propose a novel method, namely THUI (Temporal High Utility Itemsets)-Mine, for mining temporal high utility itemsets from data streams efficiently and effectively. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work on mining temporal high utility itemsets from data streams. The novel contribution of THUI-Mine is that it can effectively identify the temporal high utility itemsets by generating fewer candidate itemsets such that the execution time can be reduced substantially in mining all high utility itemsets in data streams. In this way, the process of discovering all temporal high utility itemsets under all time windows of data streams can be achieved effectively with less memory space and execution time. This meets the critical requirements on time and space efficiency for mining data streams. Through experimental evaluation, THUI-Mine is shown to significantly outperform other existing methods like Two-Phase algorithm under various experimental conditions.     

MAXFP-M iner: 利用FP- tree 快速挖掘最大频繁项集

为提高频繁项集的挖掘效率，提出了最大频繁项集树的概念和基于FP-tree的最大频繁项集挖掘算法MAXFP-Miner，首先建立了FP-tree，在此基础上建立最大频繁项集树MAXFP-tree，MAXFP-tree中包含了所有最大频繁项集，缩小了搜索空间，提高了算法的效率，算法分析和实验表明，该算法特别适合于挖掘稠密型及具有长频繁项集的数据集。     

一种新的频繁项集精简表示方法及其挖掘算法的研究

频繁项集挖掘是数据挖掘研究领域的一个基本问题,其瓶颈在于频繁项集全集的结果过多,冗余现象严重.主要的解决思路是只挖掘全体频繁项集中有代表性的子集,使得这种子集或者可满足应用的需要或者可由它们导出其他项集.最大项集和闭项集便是这类解决方案中两种最典型的子集形式.在最大项集和闭项集的基础上,提出了元项集这一新的频繁项集精简表示方法.首先,证明了最大项集和闭项集都是元项集的特例,且元项集所包含的项集数目介于二者之间;其次,讨论了元项集的性质.最后,通过在闭项集挖掘算法DCI-Closed-Index的基础上引入剪枝策略,设计了一个元项集挖掘算法.实验结果表明,所提出的挖掘算法是有效的和高效的.     

基于FIUT结构增量式频繁项集挖掘

增量式频繁项集挖掘是当前研究的热点,基于FP-Growth的Pre-FUFP算法有效处理了频繁模式的更新,但需递归遍历FP-tree,导致效率较低。提出Pre-FIUT算法,引入频繁超度量树结构,提高了获得频繁项集挖掘效率;基于FIUT的Pre-FIUT可通过查看频繁超度量树叶子结点的支持度确定频繁项集,并与次频繁项集概念相结合进行增量式频繁项集挖掘。实验表明,Pre-FIUT算法能快速扫描和更新数据,合理利用内存,精确获得频繁项集。     

基于反向矩阵的最大频集的交互式挖掘算法

发现最大项目频集是数据挖掘应用中的关键问题。本文提出了一个基于反向矩阵的最大频集的交互式挖掘算法。该算法将事务数据库转换成反向矩阵,缩小了候选子集,利于交互式挖掘。通过对每个频繁项独立建立COFI-树,减少了挖掘中对内存容量的依赖。     

DiffNodesets: An efficient structure for fast mining frequent itemsets

Mining frequent itemsets is an essential problem in data mining and plays an important role in many data mining applications. In recent years, some itemset representations based on node sets have been proposed, which have shown to be very efficient for mining frequent itemsets. In this paper, we propose DiffNodeset, a novel and more efficient itemset representation, for mining frequent itemsets. Based on the DiffNodeset structure, we present an efficient algorithm, named dFIN, to mining frequent itemsets. To achieve high efficiency, dFIN finds frequent itemsets using a set-enumeration tree with a hybrid search strategy and directly enumerates frequent itemsets without candidate generation under some case. For evaluating the performance of dFIN, we have conduct extensive experiments to compare it against with existing leading algorithms on a variety of real and synthetic datasets. The experimental results show that dFIN is significantly faster than these leading algorithms.     

多段支持度数据挖掘算法研究

在基于相联规则的数据挖掘算法中,Apriori等算法最为著名。它分为两个主要步骤：（1）通过多趟扫描数据库求解出频繁项集;（2）利用频繁项集生成规则。随后的许多算法都沿用Apriori中“频繁项集的子集必为频繁项集”的思想,在频繁项集Lk-1上进行JOIN运算构成潜在k项集Ck。由于数据库和Ck的规模较大,需要相当大的计算量才能生成频繁项集。AprioriTid算法给每个事务增加了一个唯一标识Tid,其特点是只扫描一趟数据库,其余趟扫描（如第k趟扫描）均在相应的数据集Ck^-上进行。由于数据规模改变不大,各算法的效率差别并不明显。该文提出分段计算支持度的思想,是把一个项集的支持度分段计算,每一个段记录该项集在相应规模事务中出现的频度,从而构成一个支持度向量。由于有了项集的多段支持度,可以推测出该项集能否包含在更大规模的频率项集中,采用这种算法既提高了在扫描数据库中的信息获取度,又能及时剔除超集不是频繁项集的项集,进一步缩减了潜在项集的规模,在数据集扫描过程中,按文中定理1的思想调整数据集,达到提高频繁项集生成效率的目的。     

基于动态项集计数的加权频繁项集算法

基于Apriori的加权频繁项集挖掘算法存在扫描数据集次数多的问题。为此,提出一种基于动态项集计数的加权频繁项集算法。该算法采用权值键树的数据结构和动态项集计数的方法,满足向下闭合特性,并且动态生成候选频繁项集,从而减少扫描数据集的次数。实验结果证明,该算法生成的加权频繁项集具有较高的效率和时间性能。     

最大频繁项目集的快速更新

挖掘最大频繁项目集是多种数据挖掘应用中的关键问题．为克服基于Apriori的最大频繁项目集挖掘算法存在的不足,DMFIA采用FP-tree存储结构及自顶向下的搜索策略,有效地提高了最大频繁项目集的挖掘效率．但对于频繁项目多而最大频繁项目集维数相对较小的情况,DMFIA要经过多层搜索且在每一层产生大量的候选项目集,因而影响算法的执行效率．为此,该文提出了DMFIA的改进算法IDMFIA(the Improved algorithm of DMFIA)．IDMFIA采用自顶向下和自底向上双向搜索策略,可尽早修剪掉较短最大频繁项目集的超集和较长最大频繁项目集的子集．另外,该文还提出最大频繁项目集更新算法FUMFIA(Fast Updating Maximum Frequent Itemsets Algorithm),该算法充分利用已建立的FP-tree和已挖掘的最大频繁项目集,可对已挖掘的最大频繁项目集进行高效维护．实验结果表明,IDMFIA和FUMFIA可有效提高最大频繁项目集的挖掘和更新效率．     

A statistical framework for mining substitution rules

In this paper, a new mining capability, called mining of substitution rules, is explored. A substitution refers to the choice made by a customer to replace the purchase of some items with that of others. The mining of substitution rules in a transaction database, the same as that of association rules, will lead to very valuable knowledge in various aspects, including market prediction, user behaviour analysis and decision support. The process of mining substitution rules can be decomposed into two procedures. The first procedure is to identify concrete itemsets among a large number of frequent itemsets, where a concrete itemset is a frequent itemset whose items are statistically dependent. The second procedure is then on the substitution rule generation. In this paper, we first derive theoretical properties for the model of substitution rule mining and devise a technique on the induction of positive itemset supports to improve the efficiency of support counting for negative itemsets. Then, in light of these properties, the SRM (substitution rule mining) algorithm is designed and implemented to discover the substitution rules efficiently while attaining good statistical significance. Empirical studies are performed to evaluate the performance of the SRM algorithm proposed. It is shown that the SRM algorithm not only has very good execution efficiency but also produces substitution rules of very high quality.     

高激励项集的挖掘研究

基于支持度的关联规则只能找出所有的频繁集,无法找到那些非频繁但效用很高的项集;基于效用的关联规则致力于发现所有高效用项集,无法找到效用不高但支持度与效用的积很大的项集。为克服支持度与效用的不足,提出了一种新的项集重要性的度量方法（即激励）及一种自下而上的挖掘高激励项集的算法HM-Two-Phase-Miner。激励集成了支持度与效用的优点,能同时表达项集的语义特性与统计特性。HM-Two-Phase-Miner利用事务权重激励向下封闭特性进行减枝,有效提高了算法的性能。     

逆向启发式开采最大频繁项目集

关联规则是当前数据挖掘研究的主要领域之一。发现频繁项目集是关联规则数据开采中的关键问题。该文提出了一种基于最夫频繁项目集的逆向开采算法IDMFI（inverse discovery maximum frequent itemsets)，该算法利用频繁项目集的有关特性作为启发信息，采用逆向(即自顶向下)的搜索策略，能够大大减少候选项目集的生成，从而显著地提高了开采效率。     

频繁项集挖掘的研究进展及主流方法

关联分析作为数据挖掘的主要研究模块之一,主要用于发现隐藏在大型数据集中的强关联特征。而多数关联规则挖掘任务可分为频繁模式(频繁项集、频繁序列、频繁子图)的产生和规则的产生。前者发现数据集中满足最小支持度阈值的项集、序列与子图;后者从上一步发现的频繁模式中提取高置信度的规则。频繁项集挖掘是许多数据挖掘任务中的关键问题,也是关联规则挖掘算法的核心。十几年来,学者们致力于提高频繁项集的生成效率,从不同的角度进行改进以提高算法效率,大量的高效可伸缩性算法被提出。文中对频繁项集挖掘进行深入分析,对完全频繁项集、闭频繁项集、极大频繁项集的典型算法进行介绍和评述,最后对频繁项集挖掘算法的研究方向进行简要分析。     

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。     

改进的基于频繁模式树的最大频繁项集挖掘算法——FP-MFIA

针对最大频繁项目集挖掘算法(DMFIA)当候选项目集维数高而最大频繁项目集维数较低的情况下要产生大量的候选项目集的缺点,提出了一种改进的基于频繁模式树(FP-tree)结构的最大频繁项目集挖掘算法--FP-MFIA。该算法根据FP-tree的项目头表,采用自底向上的搜索策略逐层挖掘最大频繁项目集,从而加速每次对候选集计数的操作。在挖掘时根据每层的条件模式基产生维数较低的非频繁项目集,尽早对候选项目集进行剪枝和降维,可大量减少候选项目集的数量。同时在挖掘时充分利用最大频繁项集的性质,减少搜索空间。通过算法在不同支持度下挖掘时间的对比可知,算法FP-MFIA在最小支持度较低的情况下时间效率是DMFIA以及基于降维的最大频繁模式挖掘算法(BDRFI)的2倍以上,说明FP-MFIA在候选集维数较高的时候优势明显。     

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