Github user BenFradet commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/17130#discussion_r108441341 --- Diff: docs/ml-frequent-pattern-mining.md --- @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +--- +layout: global +title: Frequent Pattern Mining +displayTitle: Frequent Pattern Mining +--- + +Mining frequent items, itemsets, subsequences, or other substructures is usually among the +first steps to analyze a large-scale dataset, which has been an active research topic in +data mining for years. +We refer users to Wikipedia's [association rule learning](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_rule_learning) +for more information. + +**Table of Contents** + +* This will become a table of contents (this text will be scraped). +{:toc} + +## FP-Growth + +The FP-growth algorithm is described in the paper +[Han et al., Mining frequent patterns without candidate generation](http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/335191.335372), +where "FP" stands for frequent pattern. +Given a dataset of transactions, the first step of FP-growth is to calculate item frequencies and identify frequent items. +Different from [Apriori-like](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apriori_algorithm) algorithms designed for the same purpose, +the second step of FP-growth uses a suffix tree (FP-tree) structure to encode transactions without generating candidate sets +explicitly, which are usually expensive to generate. +After the second step, the frequent itemsets can be extracted from the FP-tree. +In `spark.mllib`, we implemented a parallel version of FP-growth called PFP, +as described in [Li et al., PFP: Parallel FP-growth for query recommendation](http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1454008.1454027). +PFP distributes the work of growing FP-trees based on the suffices of transactions, --- End diff -- suffixes
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