How can I find closed/maximal frequent item sets?

leomonneret
leomonneret New Altair Community Member
edited November 5 in Community Q&A
Hello everyone!

I am looking for the closed frequent item sets and maximal frequent item sets but I don't find a way to have them in FP-Growth. Maybe I should use another operator?

Thanks for your help!

Léo 

Answers

  • lionelderkrikor
    lionelderkrikor New Altair Community Member
    Hi @leomonneret,

    Does this process answer to your need ? : 

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><process version="9.2.000-SNAPSHOT">
      <context>
        <input/>
        <output/>
        <macros/>
      </context>
      <operator activated="true" class="process" compatibility="9.2.000-SNAPSHOT" expanded="true" name="Process" origin="GENERATED_TEMPLATE">
        <parameter key="logverbosity" value="init"/>
        <parameter key="random_seed" value="2001"/>
        <parameter key="send_mail" value="never"/>
        <parameter key="notification_email" value=""/>
        <parameter key="process_duration_for_mail" value="30"/>
        <parameter key="encoding" value="SYSTEM"/>
        <process expanded="true">
          <operator activated="true" class="retrieve" compatibility="9.2.000-SNAPSHOT" expanded="true" height="68" name="Load Transactions" origin="GENERATED_TEMPLATE" width="90" x="112" y="187">
            <parameter key="repository_entry" value="//Samples/Templates/Market Basket Analysis/Transactions"/>
          </operator>
          <operator activated="true" class="aggregate" compatibility="6.0.006" expanded="true" height="82" name="Aggregate" origin="GENERATED_TEMPLATE" width="90" x="112" y="340">
            <parameter key="use_default_aggregation" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="attribute_filter_type" value="all"/>
            <parameter key="attribute" value=""/>
            <parameter key="attributes" value=""/>
            <parameter key="use_except_expression" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="value_type" value="attribute_value"/>
            <parameter key="use_value_type_exception" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="except_value_type" value="time"/>
            <parameter key="block_type" value="attribute_block"/>
            <parameter key="use_block_type_exception" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="except_block_type" value="value_matrix_row_start"/>
            <parameter key="invert_selection" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="include_special_attributes" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="default_aggregation_function" value="average"/>
            <list key="aggregation_attributes">
              <parameter key="product 1" value="concatenation"/>
            </list>
            <parameter key="group_by_attributes" value="Invoice"/>
            <parameter key="count_all_combinations" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="only_distinct" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="ignore_missings" value="true"/>
          </operator>
          <operator activated="true" class="rename" compatibility="9.2.000-SNAPSHOT" expanded="true" height="82" name="Rename" origin="GENERATED_TEMPLATE" width="90" x="246" y="340">
            <parameter key="old_name" value="concat(product 1)"/>
            <parameter key="new_name" value="Products"/>
            <list key="rename_additional_attributes"/>
          </operator>
          <operator activated="true" class="set_role" compatibility="9.2.000-SNAPSHOT" expanded="true" height="82" name="Set Role" origin="GENERATED_TEMPLATE" width="90" x="380" y="340">
            <parameter key="attribute_name" value="Invoice"/>
            <parameter key="target_role" value="id"/>
            <list key="set_additional_roles"/>
          </operator>
          <operator activated="true" class="concurrency:fp_growth" compatibility="9.2.000-SNAPSHOT" expanded="true" height="82" name="FP-Growth" origin="GENERATED_TEMPLATE" width="90" x="648" y="289">
            <parameter key="input_format" value="item list in a column"/>
            <parameter key="item_separators" value="|"/>
            <parameter key="use_quotes" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="quotes_character" value="&quot;"/>
            <parameter key="escape_character" value="\"/>
            <parameter key="trim_item_names" value="true"/>
            <parameter key="positive_value" value="true"/>
            <parameter key="min_requirement" value="support"/>
            <parameter key="min_support" value="0.005"/>
            <parameter key="min_frequency" value="100"/>
            <parameter key="min_items_per_itemset" value="1"/>
            <parameter key="max_items_per_itemset" value="0"/>
            <parameter key="max_number_of_itemsets" value="1000000"/>
            <parameter key="find_min_number_of_itemsets" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="min_number_of_itemsets" value="100"/>
            <parameter key="max_number_of_retries" value="15"/>
            <parameter key="requirement_decrease_factor" value="0.9"/>
            <enumeration key="must_contain_list"/>
          </operator>
          <operator activated="true" class="create_association_rules" compatibility="9.2.000-SNAPSHOT" expanded="true" height="82" name="Create Association Rules" origin="GENERATED_TEMPLATE" width="90" x="648" y="442">
            <parameter key="criterion" value="confidence"/>
            <parameter key="min_confidence" value="0.1"/>
            <parameter key="min_criterion_value" value="0.8"/>
            <parameter key="gain_theta" value="2.0"/>
            <parameter key="laplace_k" value="1.0"/>
          </operator>
          <operator activated="true" breakpoints="after" class="item_sets_to_data" compatibility="9.2.000-SNAPSHOT" expanded="true" height="82" name="Item Sets to Data" width="90" x="849" y="493">
            <parameter key="generate_item_set_indicators" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="datamanagement" value="double_array"/>
            <parameter key="data_management" value="auto"/>
          </operator>
          <operator activated="true" class="aggregate" compatibility="9.2.000-SNAPSHOT" expanded="true" height="82" name="Aggregate (2)" width="90" x="983" y="493">
            <parameter key="use_default_aggregation" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="attribute_filter_type" value="all"/>
            <parameter key="attribute" value=""/>
            <parameter key="attributes" value=""/>
            <parameter key="use_except_expression" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="value_type" value="attribute_value"/>
            <parameter key="use_value_type_exception" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="except_value_type" value="time"/>
            <parameter key="block_type" value="attribute_block"/>
            <parameter key="use_block_type_exception" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="except_block_type" value="value_matrix_row_start"/>
            <parameter key="invert_selection" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="include_special_attributes" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="default_aggregation_function" value="average"/>
            <list key="aggregation_attributes">
              <parameter key="Frequency" value="maximum"/>
            </list>
            <parameter key="group_by_attributes" value="Items"/>
            <parameter key="count_all_combinations" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="only_distinct" value="false"/>
            <parameter key="ignore_missings" value="true"/>
          </operator>
          <operator activated="true" class="sort" compatibility="9.2.000-SNAPSHOT" expanded="true" height="82" name="Sort" width="90" x="1117" y="493">
            <parameter key="attribute_name" value="maximum(Frequency)"/>
            <parameter key="sorting_direction" value="decreasing"/>
          </operator>
          <connect from_op="Load Transactions" from_port="output" to_op="Aggregate" to_port="example set input"/>
          <connect from_op="Aggregate" from_port="example set output" to_op="Rename" to_port="example set input"/>
          <connect from_op="Rename" from_port="example set output" to_op="Set Role" to_port="example set input"/>
          <connect from_op="Set Role" from_port="example set output" to_op="FP-Growth" to_port="example set"/>
          <connect from_op="FP-Growth" from_port="frequent sets" to_op="Create Association Rules" to_port="item sets"/>
          <connect from_op="Create Association Rules" from_port="rules" to_port="result 1"/>
          <connect from_op="Create Association Rules" from_port="item sets" to_op="Item Sets to Data" to_port="frequent item sets"/>
          <connect from_op="Item Sets to Data" from_port="example set" to_op="Aggregate (2)" to_port="example set input"/>
          <connect from_op="Aggregate (2)" from_port="example set output" to_op="Sort" to_port="example set input"/>
          <connect from_op="Sort" from_port="example set output" to_port="result 2"/>
          <portSpacing port="source_input 1" spacing="0"/>
          <portSpacing port="sink_result 1" spacing="147"/>
          <portSpacing port="sink_result 2" spacing="0"/>
          <portSpacing port="sink_result 3" spacing="42"/>
          <description align="left" color="yellow" colored="false" height="70" resized="false" width="850" x="20" y="25">MARKET BASKET ANALYSIS&lt;br&gt;Model associations between products by determining sets of items frequently purchased together and building association rules to derive recommendations.</description>
          <description align="left" color="blue" colored="true" height="185" resized="true" width="550" x="20" y="105">Step 1:&lt;br/&gt;Load transaction data containing a transaction id, a product id and a quantifier. The data denotes how many times a certain product has been purchased as part of a transactions.</description>
          <description align="left" color="purple" colored="true" height="341" resized="true" width="549" x="20" y="300">&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Step 2:&lt;br&gt;Edit, transform &amp;amp; load (ETL) - Aggregate transaction data via concatenation so that the products in a transaction are in one entry, separated by the pipe symbol.&lt;br&gt;</description>
          <description align="left" color="green" colored="true" height="310" resized="true" width="290" x="580" y="105">Step 3:&lt;br/&gt;Using FP-Growth, determine frequent item sets. A frequent item sets denotes that the items (products) in the set have been purchased together frequently, i.e. in a certain ratio of transactions. This ratio is given by the support of the item set.</description>
          <description align="left" color="green" colored="true" height="215" resized="true" width="286" x="579" y="425">&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Step 4:&lt;br/&gt;Create association rules which can be used for product recommendations depending on the confidences of the rules.&lt;br&gt;</description>
          <description align="left" color="yellow" colored="false" height="35" resized="true" width="849" x="20" y="655">Outputs: association rules, frequent item set&lt;br&gt;</description>
        </process>
      </operator>
    </process>
    

    Regards,

    Lionel