SLPMiner: An Algorithm for Finding Frequent Sequential Patterns Using Length-Decreasing Support Constraint

  • Authors:
  • Masakazu Seno;George Karypis

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDM '02 Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Over the years, a variety of algorithms for finding frequentsequential patterns in very large sequential databaseshave been developed. The key feature in most of these algorithmsis that they use a constant support constraint tocontrol the inherently exponential complexity of the problem.In general, patterns that contain only a few items willtend to be interesting if they have a high support, whereaslong patterns can still be interesting even if their supportis relatively small. Ideally, we desire to have an algorithmthat finds all the frequent patterns whose support decreasesas a function of their length. In this paper we present an algorithmcalled SLPMiner, that finds all sequential patternsthat satisfy a length-decreasing support constraint. Our experimentalevaluation shows that SLPMiner achieves up totwo orders of magnitude of speedup by effectively exploitingthe length-decreasing support constraint, and that itsruntime increases gradually as the average length of the sequences(and the discovered frequent patterns) increases.