CFP-tree: A compact disk-based structure for storing and querying frequent itemsets

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

  • Affiliations:
  • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong;The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong;The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

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.