Ascending Frequency Ordered Prefix-tree: Efficient Mining of Frequent Patterns

  • Authors:
  • Guimei Liu;Hongjun Lu;Yabo Xu;Jeffrey Xu Yu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • DASFAA '03 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Mining frequent patterns is a fundamental and important problem in many data mining applications. Many ofthe algorithms adopt the pattern growth approach, whichis shown to be superior to the candidate generate-and-test approach significantly. In this paper, we identify thekey factor that influence the performance of the patterngrowth approach, and optimize them to further improvethe performance. Our algorithm uses a simple while compact data structure-ascending frequency ordered prefix-tree(AFOPT) to organize the conditional databases, inwhich we use arrays to store single branches to further savespace. We traverse our prefix-tree structure using a top-down strategy. Our experiment results show that the combination of the top-down traversal strategy and the ascendingfrequency item ordering method achieves significant performance improvement over previous works.