Mining association rules between sets of items in large databases
SIGMOD '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Mining frequent patterns without candidate generation
SIGMOD '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Using a Hash-Based Method with Transaction Trimming for Mining Association Rules
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules in Large Databases
VLDB '94 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Mining Frequent Patterns without Candidate Generation: A Frequent-Pattern Tree Approach
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Fast Algorithms for Frequent Itemset Mining Using FP-Trees
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Mining frequent itemsets over data streams using efficient window sliding techniques
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Efficient frequent pattern mining based on Linear Prefix tree
Knowledge-Based Systems
MEI: An efficient algorithm for mining erasable itemsets
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
High performance evaluation of evolutionary-mined association rules on GPUs
The Journal of Supercomputing
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Many algorithms have been proposed to efficiently mine association rules. One of the most important approaches is FP-growth. Without candidate generation, FP-growth proposes an algorithm to compress information needed for mining frequent itemsets in FP-tree and recursively constructs FP-trees to find all frequent itemsets. Performance results have demonstrated that the FP-growth method performs extremely well. In this paper, we propose the IFP-growth (improved FP-growth) algorithm to improve the performance of FP-growth. There are three major features of IFP-growth. First, it employs an address-table structure to lower the complexity of forming the entire FP-tree. Second, it uses a new structure called FP-tree^+ to reduce the need for building conditional FP-trees recursively. Third, by using address-table and FP-tree^+ the proposed algorithm has less memory requirement and better performance in comparison with FP-tree based algorithms. The experimental results show that the IFP-growth requires relatively little memory space during the mining process. Even when the minimum support is low, the space needed by IFP-growth is about one half of that of FP-growth and about one fourth of that of nonordfp algorithm. As to the execution time, our method outperforms FP-growth by one to 300 times under different minimum supports. The proposed algorithm also outperforms nonordfp algorithm in most cases. As a result, IFP-growth is very suitable for high performance applications.