The Apriori algorithm is an iterative algorithm that uses prior knowledge of frequent itemset properties to efficiently mine frequent itemsets over transactional datasets. It employs a level-wise search where k-itemsets are used to explore (k+1)-itemsets. In each iteration candidate itemsets are generated and then their occurrence is counted in the database to determine the frequent itemsets, pruning any infrequent candidates. The algorithm leverages the closure property that if an itemset is frequent, then all its subsets must also be frequent.
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The Apriori algorithm is an iterative algorithm that uses prior knowledge of frequent itemset properties to efficiently mine frequent itemsets over transactional datasets. It employs a level-wise search where k-itemsets are used to explore (k+1)-itemsets. In each iteration candidate itemsets are generated and then their occurrence is counted in the database to determine the frequent itemsets, pruning any infrequent candidates. The algorithm leverages the closure property that if an itemset is frequent, then all its subsets must also be frequent.
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Apriori Algorithm for Frequent Pattern Mining
Apriori is a algorithm proposed by R. Agrawal and R
Srikant in 1994 [1] for mining frequent item sets for Boolean association rule. The name of algorithm is based on the fact that the algorithm uses prior knowledge of frequent item set properties, as we shall see following. Apriori employs an iterative approach known as level-wise search, where k item set are used to explore (k+1) item sets. There are two steps in each iteration. The first step generates a set of candidate item sets. Then, in the second step we count the occurrence of each candidate set in database and prunes all disqualified candidates (i.e. all infrequent item sets). Apriori uses two pruning technique, first on the bases of support count (should be greater than user specified support threshold) and second for an item set to be frequent , all its subset should be in last frequent item set The iterations begin with size 2 item sets and the size is incremented after each iteration. The algorithm is based on the closure property of frequent item sets: if a set of items is frequent, then all its proper subsets are also frequent. Apriori Algorithm Initialize: k := 1, C1 = all the 1- item sets; read the database to count the support of C1 to determine L1. L1 := {frequent 1- item sets}; k:=2; //k represents the pass number// while (Lk-1 ≠ ) do begin Ck := gen_candidate_itemsets with the given Lk-1 prune(Ck) for all transactions t T do increment the count of all candidates in CK that are contained in t; Lk := All candidates in Ck with minimum support ; k := k + 1; end Answer := k Lk ;