Hyper-structure mining of frequent patterns in uncertain data streams

Data uncertainty is inherent in many real-world applications such as sensor monitoring systems, location-based services, and medical diagnostic systems. Moreover, many real-world applications are now capable of producing continuous, unbounded data streams. During the recent years, new methods have been developed to find frequent patterns in uncertain databases; nevertheless, very limited work has been done in discovering frequent patterns in uncertain data streams. The current solutions for frequent pattern mining in uncertain streams take a FP-tree-based approach; however, recent studies have shown that FP-tree-based algorithms do not perform well in the presence of data uncertainty. In this paper, we propose two hyper-structure-based false-positive-oriented algorithms to efficiently mine frequent itemsets from streams of uncertain data. The first algorithm, UHS-Stream, is designed to find all frequent itemsets up to the current moment. The second algorithm, TFUHS-Stream, is designed to find frequent itemsets in an uncertain data stream in a time-fading manner. Experimental results show that the proposed hyper-structure-based algorithms outperform the existing tree-based algorithms in terms of accuracy, runtime, and memory usage.     

数据流频繁模式挖掘综述

一些先进应用如欺诈检测和趋势学习等带来了数据流频繁模式挖掘的发展。不同于静态数据,数据流挖掘面临着时空约束和项集组合爆炸等问题。对已有数据流频繁模式挖掘算法进行综述并对经典和最新算法进行分析。按照模式集合的完整程度进行分类,数据流中频繁模式分为全集模式和压缩模式。压缩模式主要包括闭合模式、最大模式、top-k模式以及三者的组合模式。不同之处是闭合模式是无损压缩的,而其他模式是有损压缩的。为了得到有趣的频繁模式,可以挖掘基于用户约束的模式。为了处理数据流中的新近事务,将算法分为基于窗口模型和基于衰减模型的方法。数据流中模式挖掘常见的还包含序列模式和高效用模式,对经典和最新算法进行介绍。最后给出了数据流模式挖掘的下一步工作。     

Mining frequent patterns from univariate uncertain data

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm called U2P-Miner for mining frequent U2 patterns from univariate uncertain data, where each attribute in a transaction is associated with a quantitative interval and a probability density function. The algorithm is implemented in two phases. First, we construct a U2P-tree that compresses the information in the target database. Then, we use the U2P-tree to discover frequent U2 patterns. Potential frequent U2 patterns are derived by combining base intervals and verified by traversing the U2P-tree. We also develop two techniques to speed up the mining process. Since the proposed method is based on a tree-traversing strategy, it is both efficient and scalable. Our experimental results demonstrate that the U2P-Miner algorithm outperforms three widely used algorithms, namely, the modified Apriori, modified H-mine, and modified depth-first backtracking algorithms.     

Mining top-k frequent patterns over data streams sliding window

Frequent pattern mining in data streams is an important research topic in the data mining community. In previous studies, a minimum support threshold was assumed to be available for mining frequent patterns. However, setting such a threshold is typically difficult. Hence, it is more reasonable to ask users to set a bound on the result size. The present study considers mining top-k frequent patterns from data streams using a sliding window technique. A single-pass algorithm, called MSWTP, is developed for the generation of top-k frequent patterns without a threshold. In the method, the content of the transactions in the sliding window is incrementally maintained in a summary data structure, named SWTP-tree, by scanning the stream only once. To make the mining operation efficient, insignificant patterns are distinguished from others by applying the Chernoff bound. Two kinds of obsolete pattern and one kind of insignificant pattern are periodically pruned from the pattern tree. Whenever necessary, the k most frequent patterns can be selected from SWTP-tree in order of their descending frequency. The performance of the proposed technique is evaluated via simulation experiments. The results show that the proposed method is both efficient and scalable, and that it outperforms comparable algorithms.     

Batch incremental processing for FP-tree construction using FP-Growth algorithm

In the present scenario of global economy and World Wide Web, large sets of evolving and distributed data can be handled efficiently by incremental data mining. Frequent patterns are very important in knowledge discovery and data mining process, such as mining of association rules, correlations. FP-tree is a very versatile data structure used for mining of frequent patterns in knowledge discovery and data mining process. FP-tree is a compact representation of transaction database that contains frequency information of all relevant frequent patterns (FP) of the database. All of the existing incremental frequent pattern mining algorithms, such as AFPIM, CATS, CanTree, CP-tree, and SPO-tree, perform incremental mining by processing one transaction of the incremental part of database at a time and updating it to the FP-tree of initial (original) database. Here, in this paper, we propose a novel method that takes advantage of FP-tree representation of incremental transaction database for incremental mining. We propose a batch incremental processing algorithm BIT_FPGrowth that restructures and merges two small consecutive duration FP-trees to obtain a FP-tree of the FP-Growth algorithm. Our BIT_FPGrowth uses FP-tree as preprocessed data repository to get transactions (i.e., item-sets), unlike other sequential incremental algorithms that read transactions from database. BIT_FPGrowth algorithm takes less time for constructing FP-tree. Our experimental results show that, as the size of the database increases, increase in runtime of BIT_FPGrowth is much less and is least of all the other algorithms.     

Sliding window-based frequent pattern mining over data streams

Finding frequent patterns in a continuous stream of transactions is critical for many applications such as retail market data analysis, network monitoring, web usage mining, and stock market prediction. Even though numerous frequent pattern mining algorithms have been developed over the past decade, new solutions for handling stream data are still required due to the continuous, unbounded, and ordered sequence of data elements generated at a rapid rate in a data stream. Therefore, extracting frequent patterns from more recent data can enhance the analysis of stream data. In this paper, we propose an efficient technique to discover the complete set of recent frequent patterns from a high-speed data stream over a sliding window. We develop a Compact Pattern Stream tree (CPS-tree) to capture the recent stream data content and efficiently remove the obsolete, old stream data content. We also introduce the concept of dynamic tree restructuring in our CPS-tree to produce a highly compact frequency-descending tree structure at runtime. The complete set of recent frequent patterns is obtained from the CPS-tree of the current window using an FP-growth mining technique. Extensive experimental analyses show that our CPS-tree is highly efficient in terms of memory and time complexity when finding recent frequent patterns from a high-speed data stream.     

Efficient algorithms for mining maximal high utility itemsets from data streams with different models

Data stream mining is an emerging research topic in the data mining field. Finding frequent itemsets is one of the most important tasks in data stream mining with wide applications like online e-business and web click-stream analysis. However, two main problems existed in relevant studies: (1) The utilities (e.g., importance or profits) of items are not considered. Actual utilities of patterns cannot be reflected in frequent itemsets. (2) Existing utility mining methods produce too many patterns and this makes it difficult for the users to filter useful patterns among the huge set of patterns. In view of this, in this paper we propose a novel framework, named GUIDE (Generation of maximal high Utility Itemsets from Data strEams), to find maximal high utility itemsets from data streams with different models, i.e., landmark, sliding window and time fading models. The proposed structure, named MUI-Tree (Maximal high Utility Itemset Tree), maintains essential information for the mining processes and the proposed strategies further facilitates the performance of GUIDE. Main contributions of this paper are as follows: (1) To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work on mining the compact form of high utility patterns from data streams; (2) GUIDE is an effective one-pass framework which meets the requirements of data stream mining; (3) GUIDE generates novel patterns which are not only high utility but also maximal, which provide compact and insightful hidden information in the data streams. Experimental results show that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms under various conditions in data stream environments on different models.     

Efficiently mining erasable stream patterns for intelligent systems over uncertain data

Data mining is a method for extracting useful information that is necessary for a system from a database. As the types of data processed by the system are diversified, the transformed pattern mining techniques for processing these type of data have been proposed. Unlike the traditional pattern mining methods, erasable pattern mining is a technique for finding the patterns that can be removed by coming with a small profit. Erasable pattern mining should be able to process data by considering both the environment that the data are generated from and the characteristics of the data. An uncertain database is a database that is composed of uncertain data. Since erasable patterns discovered from uncertain data contain significant information, these patterns need to be extracted. In addition, databases gradually increase, because the data from various fields is generated and accumulated over data streams. Data streams should be processed as intelligently as possible to provide the useful data to the system in real time. In this paper, we propose an efficient erasable pattern mining algorithm that processes uncertain data that is generated over data streams. The uncertain erasable patterns discovered through the suggested technique are more meaningful information by considering the probability of the item and the profit. Moreover, the proposed method can perform efficient mining operations by using both tree and list structures. The performance of the suggested algorithm is verified through the performance tests compared with state-of-the-art algorithms using real data sets and synthetic data sets.     

数据流频繁模式挖掘算法设计

介绍了数据流频繁模式的概念和定义,提出了数据流频繁模式挖掘算法的通用数据流处理模型,详细总结了数据流频繁模式挖掘算法的三种分类方式:"窗口模型"、"结果集类型"和"结果集精确性".基于这些分类方法提出了数据流频繁模式挖掘算法的设计立方体,该立方体不仅涵盖了现有的数据流频繁模式挖掘算法,还对设计新的算法具有指导意义.基于设计立方体,分析了设计算法时应当采取的有效策略,旨在为设计新算法提供一个有力参考.最后讨论了数据流频繁模式挖掘的进一步研究工作.     

不确定数据频繁项集挖掘方法综述

近几年来,不确定数据广泛出现在传感器网络、Web应用等领域中。不确定数据挖掘已经成为了新的研究热点,主要包括聚类、分类、频繁项集挖掘、孤立点检测等方面,其中频繁项集挖掘是重点研究的问题之一。综述了传统的频繁项集挖掘的两类基本算法,分析了在此基础上提出的适用于不确定数据以及不确定数据流的频繁项集挖掘的方法,并探讨了今后可能的研究方向。     

Sliding window based weighted maximal frequent pattern mining over data streams

As data have been accumulated more quickly in recent years, corresponding databases have also become huger, and thus, general frequent pattern mining methods have been faced with limitations that do not appropriately respond to the massive data. To overcome this problem, data mining researchers have studied methods which can conduct more efficient and immediate mining tasks by scanning databases only once. Thereafter, the sliding window model, which can perform mining operations focusing on recently accumulated parts over data streams, was proposed, and a variety of mining approaches related to this have been suggested. However, it is hard to mine all of the frequent patterns in the data stream environment since generated patterns are remarkably increased as data streams are continuously extended. Thus, methods for efficiently compressing generated patterns are needed in order to solve that problem. In addition, since not only support conditions but also weight constraints expressing items’ importance are one of the important factors in the pattern mining, we need to consider them in mining process. Motivated by these issues, we propose a novel algorithm, weighted maximal frequent pattern mining over data streams based on sliding window model (WMFP-SW) to obtain weighted maximal frequent patterns reflecting recent information over data streams. Performance experiments report that MWFP-SW outperforms previous algorithms in terms of runtime, memory usage, and scalability.     

Mining constrained frequent itemsets from distributed uncertain data

Nowadays, high volumes of massive data can be generated from various sources (e.g., sensor data from environmental surveillance). Many existing distributed frequent itemset mining algorithms do not allow users to express the itemsets to be mined according to their intention via the use of constraints. Consequently, these unconstrained mining algorithms can yield numerous itemsets that are not interesting to users. Moreover, due to inherited measurement inaccuracies and/or network latencies, the data are often riddled with uncertainty. These call for both constrained mining and uncertain data mining. In this journal article, we propose a data-intensive computer system for tree-based mining of frequent itemsets that satisfy user-defined constraints from a distributed environment such as a wireless sensor network of uncertain data.     

窗口模式下在线数据流中频繁项集的挖掘*

拟采用一种基于滑动窗模式的单遍挖掘算法,专注于处理近期数据;为了减少处理时间和占用的内存,设计了一种新的事务表示方法。通过处理这个事务的表达式,频繁项集可以被高效输出,并解决了使用基于Apriori理论的算法时,由候选频繁1-项集生成频繁2-项集时数据项顺序判断不准确问题。该算法称为MRFI-SW算法。     

一种基于Spark的不确定数据集频繁模式挖掘算法

如何在海量不确定数据集中提高频繁模式挖掘性能是目前研究的热点.传统算法大多是以期望、概率或者权重等单一指标为数据项集支持度，在大数据背景下，同时考虑概率和权重支持度的算法难以兼顾其执行效率.为此，本文提出一种基于Spark的不确定数据集频繁模式挖掘算法（UWEFP），首先，为了同时兼顾数据项的概率和权重，计算一项集的最大概率权重值并进行剪枝；然后，为了减少对数据集的多次扫描，结合Spark框架的优点，设计了一种具有FP-tree特征的新颖的UWEFP-tree结构进行模式树的构建及挖掘；最后在Spark环境下，以UCI数据集进行实验验证.实验结果表明本文的方法在保证挖掘结果的同时，提高了效率.     

隐含概念漂移的不确定数据流集成分类算法

近年来,数据流分类问题已经逐渐成为数据挖掘领域的一个研究热点,然而传统的数据流分类算法大多只能处理数据项已知并且为精确值的数据流,无法有效地应用于现实应用中普遍存在的不确定数据流。为建立适应数据不确定性的分类模型,提高不确定数据流分类准确率,提出一种针对不确定数据流的集成分类算法,该算法将不确定数据用区间及其概率分布函数表示,用C4.5决策树分类方法和朴素贝叶斯分类方法训练基分类器,在合理处理数据流中不确定性的同时,还能有效解决数据流中隐含的概念漂移问题。实验结果表明,所提算法在处理不确定数据流的分类时具有较好的鲁棒性,并且具有较高的分类准确率。     

基于概率衰减窗口模型的不确定数据流频繁模式挖掘

考虑到不确定数据流的不确定性,设计了一种新的概率频繁模式树PFP-tree和基于该树的概率频繁模式挖掘方法PFP-growth.PFP-growth使用事务性不确定数据流及概率衰减窗口模型,通过计算各概率数据项的期望支持度以发现概率频繁模式,其主要特点有:考虑到窗口内不同时间到达数据项的贡献度不同,采用概率衰减窗口模型计算期望支持度,以提高模式挖掘准确度;设置数据项索引表和事务索引表,以加快频繁模式树检索速度;通过剪枝删除不可能成为频繁模式的结点,以降低模式树的存储及检索开销;对每个结点都设立一个事务概率信息链表,以支持数据项在不同事务中具有不同概率的情形.实验结果表明,PFP-growth在保证挖掘模式准确度的前提下,在处理时间和内存空间等方面都具有较好的性能.     

Approximate mining of maximal frequent itemsets in data streams with different window models

A data stream is a massive, open-ended sequence of data elements continuously generated at a rapid rate. Mining data streams is more difficult than mining static databases because the huge, high-speed and continuous characteristics of streaming data. In this paper, we propose a new one-pass algorithm called DSM-MFI (stands for Data Stream Mining for Maximal Frequent Itemsets), which mines the set of all maximal frequent itemsets in landmark windows over data streams. A new summary data structure called summary frequent itemset forest (abbreviated as SFI-forest) is developed for incremental maintaining the essential information about maximal frequent itemsets embedded in the stream so far. Theoretical analysis and experimental studies show that the proposed algorithm is efficient and scalable for mining the set of all maximal frequent itemsets over the entire history of the data streams.     

数据流中基于滑动窗口的序列模式挖掘算法

序列模式发现是最重要的数据挖掘任务之一,并有着广阔的应用前景。针对静态数据库,序列模式挖掘已经被深入地研究,但针对基于数据流的序列模式挖掘的研究还不是十分深入。数据流有着无限性的特性,因此往往不能保存数据流中全部的数据,同时很多时候只对最近的时间段的序列模式感兴趣,提出一个有效的结合滑动窗口技术的挖掘序列模式的算法FPM-SW,算法利用到3个数据结构（PatternTable,CountTable和Ta-tree）来处理基于数据流的序列模式挖掘的复杂性问题。算法通过CountTable结构来保存以往的潜在频繁序列,考虑到在某些情况下CountTable占用内存过多,算法还结合了一种压缩CountTable技术来减少内存占用。FPM-SW的优点是可以最大限度地降低负正例的产生,实验表明FPM-SW具有较高的准确率。     

挖掘数据流任意滑动时间窗口内频繁模式

由于数据流的流动性与连续性,数据流所蕴含的知识会随着时间的推移而发生变化.因此,在绝大多数数据流的应用中,用户往往对新产生的流数据所包含的知识要比对历史流数据所包含的知识感兴趣得多.提出了一种挖掘数据流任意大小滑动时间窗口内频繁模式的方法MSW(mining sliding window).当数据流流过时,该方法使用滑动窗口树SW-tree在单遍扫描流数据的条件下及时捕获数据流上最新的模式信息.同时,该方法还周期性地删除滑动窗口树上过期的及不频繁的模式分支,从而降低滑动窗口树的空间复杂度与维护代价.此外,该方法还应用时间衰减模型逐步降低历史事务模式支持数的权重,并由此来区分最近产生事务与历史事务的模式.大量仿真实验的结果表明,算法MSS具有较高的效率与优良的可扩展性,同时也优于其他同类算法.     

Online mining of frequent sets in data streams with error guarantee

For most data stream applications, the volume of data is too huge to be stored in permanent devices or to be thoroughly scanned more than once. It is hence recognized that approximate answers are usually sufficient, where a good approximation obtained in a timely manner is often better than the exact answer that is delayed beyond the window of opportunity. Unfortunately, this is not the case for mining frequent patterns over data streams where algorithms capable of online processing data streams do not conform strictly to a precise error guarantee. Since the quality of approximate answers is as important as their timely delivery, it is necessary to design algorithms to meet both criteria at the same time. In this paper, we propose an algorithm that allows online processing of streaming data and yet guaranteeing the support error of frequent patterns strictly within a user-specified threshold. Our theoretical and experimental studies show that our algorithm is an effective and reliable method for finding frequent sets in data stream environments when both constraints need to be satisfied.