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Machine Learning based FP-

Growth Algorithm
Data Warehousing and Mining - Sem 5

122AX027- Ketki Dighe

FP-Growth is a powerful algorithm for discovering frequent patterns in


large datasets, a crucial task in many data mining applications. This
algorithm is particularly efficient, especially when dealing with massive
datasets, and can be enhanced with machine learning techniques for
even better performance and insights.
Introduction to Frequent Pattern Mining
Discovering Hidden Insights Uncovering Relationships
Frequent pattern mining is a powerful data mining By understanding these frequent patterns, businesses can
technique used to uncover frequently occurring patterns gain a deeper understanding of customer preferences,
within large datasets. This process identifies sets of items market trends, and potential relationships between
that appear together repeatedly, providing valuable different variables within their data.
insights into customer behavior, product associations, and
more.
Apriori Algorithm:
Limitations and Challenges
Computational Candidate Generation
Complexity The algorithm requires
The Apriori algorithm can be generating and evaluating
computationally expensive, numerous candidate itemsets,
especially for large datasets which can lead to
with many items and high performance bottlenecks.
support thresholds.

Memory Overhead
Storing and manipulating large candidate itemsets can lead to
significant memory usage, particularly for datasets with frequent
patterns.
Principles of FP-Growth
Algorithm
1 Frequent Pattern Tree 2 Prefix Paths and
(FP-Tree) Conditional FP-Trees
The FP-Growth algorithm The algorithm utilizes prefix
utilizes a specialized data paths and conditional FP-
structure called the FP-Tree, Trees to efficiently extract
which is a compact and frequent patterns by
efficient representation of traversing the FP-Tree and
the frequent patterns in a constructing subtrees for
dataset. each item.

3 Recursive Pattern Extraction


The FP-Growth algorithm works recursively, starting from the
most frequent item and then progressively building subtrees for
less frequent items to extract patterns.
Constructing the FP-Tree
Root Node
1
The FP-Tree starts with a root node, representing the entire transaction database.

Item Nodes
2 Each item in a transaction is represented by an item node, linked to its parent
node and containing the item's frequency count.

Branching Structure
Branches in the FP-Tree are formed based on the
3
frequency of items and the order in which they appear in
transactions, creating a hierarchical structure.
Extracting Frequent Patterns
from FP-Tree
1 Pattern Growth
The FP-Growth algorithm recursively extracts frequent
patterns by traversing the FP-Tree and building
conditional FP-Trees for each frequent item.

2 Pattern Counting
Each traversal of the FP-Tree counts the frequency of
patterns, combining them with previously identified
frequent patterns.

3 Pattern Generation
The algorithm generates a list of frequent patterns by
combining the frequent items and their corresponding
frequency counts.
Advantages of FP-Growth over Apriori
Efficiency and Speed Reduced Memory Usage
FP-Growth excels in efficiency, especially for massive The FP-Growth algorithm's memory footprint is
datasets, thanks to its compact FP-Tree structure. This significantly smaller than Apriori's, as it does not need to
allows for faster pattern discovery compared to Apriori's store numerous candidate itemsets. This makes it more
candidate generation approach, which can become practical for datasets with limited memory resources.
computationally expensive.
Real-world Applications and
Use Cases

Retail Analytics Network Security


Understanding customer buying Detecting suspicious network
patterns, recommending traffic, identifying potential
products, and optimizing security breaches, and improving
inventory management. intrusion detection systems.

Healthcare Weather Forecasting


Analyzing patient data to identify Analyzing weather patterns,
disease patterns, predict health predicting future conditions, and
outcomes, and personalize improving weather forecasting
treatment plans. accuracy.

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