Algorithms

SPMF offers implementations of the following data mining algorithms.

Sequential Pattern Mining

These algorithms discover sequential patterns in a set of sequences. For a good overview of sequential pattern mining algorithms, please read this survey paper.

Sequential Rule Mining

These algorithms discover sequential rules in a set of sequences.

Sequence Prediction

These algorithms predict the next symbol(s) of a sequence based on a set of training sequences

Itemset Mining

These algorithms discover interesting itemsets (sets of values) that appear in a transaction database (database records containing symbolic data). For a good overview of itemset mining, please read this survey paper.

  • algorithms for discovering frequent itemsets in a transaction database.
  • algorithms for discovering frequent closed itemsets in a transaction database.
  • algorithms for recovering all frequent itemsets from frequent closed itemsets:
    • the LevelWise algorithm (Pasquier et al., 1999) new
    • the DFI-Growth algorithm (Huang et al., 2019) new
  • algorithms for discovering frequent maximal itemsets in a transaction database.
    • the FPMax algorithm (Grahne and Zhu, 2003)
    • the Charm-MFI algorithm for discovering frequent closed itemsets and maximal frequent itemsets by post-processing in a transaction database (Szathmary et al. 2006)
  • algorithms for mining frequent itemsets with multiple minimum supports
  • algorithms for mining generator itemsets in a transaction database
    • the DefMe algorithm for mining frequent generator itemsets in a transaction database (Soulet & Rioult, 2014)
    • the Pascal algorithm for mining frequent itemsets, and identifying at the same time which one are generators (Bastide et al., 2002)
    • the Zart algorithm for discovering frequent closed itemsets and their generators in a transaction database (Szathmary et al. 2007)
  • algorithms for mining rare itemsets and/or correlated itemsets in a transaction database
    • the AprioriInverse algorithm for mining perfectly rare itemsets (Koh & Roundtree, 2005)
    • the AprioriRare algorithm for mining minimal rare itemsets and frequent itemsets (Szathmary et al. 2007b)
    • the CORI algorithm for mining minimal rare correlated itemsets using the support and bond measures (Bouasker et al. 2015)
    • the RP-Growth algorithm for mining rare itemsets (Tsang et al., 2011) new
  • algorithms for performing targeted and dynamic queries about association rules and frequent itemsets.
    • the Itemset-Tree, a data structure that can be updated incrementally, and algorithms for querying it. (Kubat et al, 2003)
    • the Memory-Efficient Itemset-Tree, a data structure that can be updated incrementally, and algorithms for querying it. (Fournier-Viger, 2013, powerpoint)
  • algorithms to discover frequent itemsets in a stream
    • the estDec algorithm for mining recent frequent itemsets in a data stream (Chang & Lee, 2003)
    • the estDec+ algorithm for mining recent frequent itemsets in a data stream (Shin et al., 2014)
    • the CloStream algorithm for mining frequent closed itemsets in a data stream (Yen et al, 2009)
  • the U-Apriori algorithm for mining frequent itemsets in uncertain data (Chui et al, 2007)
  • the VME algorithm for mining erasable itemsets (Deng & Xu, 2010)
  • algorithms to discover fuzzy frequent itemsets in a quantitative transaction database
  • the OPUS-Miner algorithm for mining self-sufficient itemsets (Webb et al., 2014)

Episode Mining

These algorithms discover patterns (episodes) that appear in a single sequence of events.

  • algorithms for mining frequent episodes
    • the TKE algorithm, which finds the top-k most frequent episodes based on the head frequency (Fournier-Viger et al., 2020) new
    • the EMMA algorithm, which counts the support based on the head frequency (Kuo-Yu et al., 2008) new
    • the MINEPI+ algorithm,which counts the support based on the head frequency (Kuo-Yu et al., 2008) new
    • the MINEPI algorithm, which counts the support based on minimal occurrences, and does not allow simultaneous events (Mannila & Toivonen, 1997) new
  • algorithms for mining high utility episodes in a sequence of complex events (a transaction database) with utility information
    • the HUE-SPAN algorithm (Fournier-Viger et al., 2019, powerpoint) for mining high utility episodes in a sequence of complex events (a transaction database) with utility information new
    • the US-SPAN algorithm (Wu et al., 2013 ) for mining high utility episodes in a sequence of complex events (a transaction database) with utility information
    • the TUP algorithm (Rathore et al., 2016) for mining the top-k high utility episodes in a sequence of complex events (a transaction database) with utility information

Periodic Pattern Mining

These algorithms discover patterns that periodically appear in the data

Graph Pattern Mining new

These algorithms discover patterns in graphs

  • Algorithms for mining patterns in a database of labelled graphs
  • Algorithms for mining patterns in a dynamic attributed graph

High-Utility Pattern Mining

These algorithms discover patterns having a high utility (importance) in different kinds of data. For a good overview of high utility itemset mining, you may read this survey paper, and the high utility-pattern mining book.

Association Rule Mining

These algorithms discover interesting associations between symbols (values) in a transaction database (database records with binary attributes).

  • an algorithm for mining all association rules in a transaction database (Agrawal & Srikant, 1994)
  • an algorithm for mining all association rules with the lift measure in a transaction database (adapted from Agrawal & Srikant, 1994)
  • an algorithm for mining the IGB informative and generic basis of association rules in a transaction database (Gasmi et al., 2005)
  • an algorithm for mining perfectly sporadic association rules (Koh & Roundtree, 2005)
  • an algorithm for mining closed association rules (Szathmary et al. 2006).
  • an algorithm for mining minimal non redundant association rules (Kryszkiewicz, 1998)
  • the Indirect algorithm for mining indirect association rules (Tan et al. 2000; Tan et 2006)
  • the FHSAR algorithm for hiding sensitive association rules (Weng et al. 2008)
  • the TopKRules algorithm for mining the top-k association rules (Fournier-Viger, 2012b, powerpoint)
  • the TopKClassRules algorithm for mining the top-k class association rules (a variation of TopKRules. This latter is described in Fournier-Viger, 2012b, powerpoint)
  • the TNR algorithm for mining top-k non-redundant association rules (Fournier-Viger 2012d, powerpoint)

Stream mining

These algorithms discovers various kinds of patterns in a stream (an infinite sequence of database records (transactions))

  • the estDec algorithm for mining recent frequent itemsets in a data stream (Chang & Lee, 2003)
  • the estDec+ algorithm for mining recent frequent itemsets in a data stream (Shin et al., 2014)
  • the CloStream algorithm for mining frequent closed itemsets in a data stream (Yen et al, 2009)
  • algorithms for mining the top-k high utility itemsets from a data stream with a window

Clustering

These algorithms automatically find clusters in different kinds of data

  • the original K-Means algorithm (MacQueen, 1967)
  • the Bisecting K-Means algorithm (Steinbach et al, 2000)
  • algorithms for density-based clustering
    • the DBScan algorithm (Ester et al., 1996)
    • the Optics algorithm to extract a cluster ordering of points, which can then be use to generate DBScan style clusters and more (Ankerst et al, 1999)
  • a hierarchical clustering algorithm
  • a tool called Cluster Viewer for visualizing clusters
  • a tool called Instance Viewer for visualizing the input of clustering algorithms

Time series mining

These algorithms perform various tasks to analyze time series data

  • an algorithm for converting a time series to a sequence of symbols using the SAX representation of time series. Note that if one converts a set of time series with SAX, he will obtain a sequence database, which allows to then apply traditional algorihtms for sequential rule mining and sequential pattern mining on time series (SAX, 2007).
  • algorithms for calculating the prior moving average of a time series (to remove noise)
  • algorithms for calculating the cumulative moving average f a time series (to remove noise)
  • algorithms for calculating the central moving average of a time series (to remove noise)
  • an algorithm for calculating the median smoothing of a time series (to remove noise)
  • an algorithm for calculating the exponential smoothing of a time series (to remove noise) new
  • an algorithm for calculating the min max normalization of a time series new
  • an algorithm for calculating the autocorrelation function of a time series new
  • an algorithm for calculating the standardization of a time series new
  • an algorithm for calculating the first and second order differencing of a time series
  • an algorithm for calculating the piecewise aggregate approximation of a time series (to reduce the number of data points of a time series)
  • an algorithm for calculating the linear regression of a time series (using the least squares method) new
  • an algorithm for splitting a time series into segments of a given length
  • an algorithm for splitting a time series into a given number of segments
  • algorithms to cluster time series (group time-series according to their similarities). This can be done by applying the clustering algorithms offered in SPMF (K-Means, Bisecting K-Means, DBScan, OPTICS, Hierarchical clustering) on time series.
  • a tool called Time Series Viewer for visualizing time series new

Classification

  • the ID3 algorithm for building decision trees (Quinlan, 1986)

Text mining

  • an algorithm for classifying text documents using a Naive Bayes classifier approach (S. Raghu, 2015)
  • an algorithm for clustering texts using the tf*idf measure (S. Raghu, 2015)

Data structures

  • red-black tree,
  • itemset-tree,
  • binary tree,
  • KD-tree,
  • triangular matrix.

Tools

  • A tool for generating a synthetic transaction database
  • A tool for generating a synthetic sequence database
  • A tool for generating a synthetic sequence database with timestamps
  • A tool for calculating statistics about a transaction database
  • A tool for calculating statistics about a transaction database with utility information
  • A tool for calculating statistics about a sequence database
  • A tool for converting a sequence database to a transaction database
  • A tool for converting a transaction database to a sequence database
  • A tool for converting a text file to a sequence database (each sentences becomes a sequence)
  • A tool for converting a sequence database in various formats (CSV, KOSARAK, BMS, IBM...) to a sequence database in SPMF format
  • A tool for converting a transaction database in various formats (CSV...) to a transaction database in SPMF format
  • A tool for converting time-series to a sequence database
  • A tool to generate utility values for a transaction database
  • A tool to add timestamps to a sequence database
  • A tool for removing utility information from a database  having utility information
  • A tool to resize a database in SPMF format (a text file) using a percentage of lines of data from an original database.
  • A tool for visualizing time-series

Visual map of algorithms

You can visualize the relationship between the various data mining algorithms offered in SPMF by clicking on this map (last updated : 2015/09/12 - SPMF 0.97):

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