Apriori Algorithm

Apriori Algorithm

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  APRIORI ALGORITHM BY International Schoolof Engineering We Are Applied Engineering Disclaimer: Some of the Images and content have been taken from multiple online sources and this presentation is intended only for knowledge sharing but not for any commercial business intention
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  OVERVIEW • DEFNITION OFAPRIORI ALGORITHM • KEY CONCEPTS • STEPS TO PERFORM APRIORI ALGORITHM • APRIORI ALGORITHM EXAMPLE • MARKET BASKET ANALYSIS • THE APRIORI ALGORITHM : PSEUDO CODE • LIMITATIONS • METHODS TO IMPROVE APRIORI’S EFFICIENCY • APRIORI ADVANTAGES/DISADVANTAGES • VIDEO OF APRIORI ALGORITHM
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  DEFINITION OF APRIORIALGORITHM • The Apriori Algorithm is an influential algorithm for mining frequent itemsets for boolean association rules. • Apriori uses a "bottom up" approach, where frequent subsets are extended one item at a time (a step known as candidate generation, and groups of candidates are tested against the data. • Apriori is designed to operate on database containing transactions (for example, collections of items bought by customers, or details of a website frequentation).
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  KEY CONCEPTS • FrequentItemsets: All the sets which contain the item with the minimum support (denoted by 𝐿𝑖 for 𝑖 𝑡ℎ itemset). • Apriori Property: Any subset of frequent itemset must be frequent. • Join Operation: To find 𝐿 𝑘, a set of candidate k-itemsets is generated by joining 𝐿 𝑘−1 with itself.
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  STEPSTO PERFORM APRIORIALGORITHM STEP 1 Scan the transaction data base to get the support of S each 1-itemset, compare S with min_sup, and get a support of 1-itemsets, L1 STEP 2 Use 𝐿 𝑘−1 join 𝐿 𝑘−1 to generate a set of candidate k-itemsets. And use Apriori property to prune the unfrequented k-itemsets from this set. STEP 3 Scan the transaction database to get the support S of each candidate k-itemset in the find set, compare S with min_sup, and get a set of frequent k-itemsets 𝐿 𝑘 STEP 4 The candidate set = Null STEP 5 For each frequent itemset 1, generate all nonempty subsets of 1 STEP 6 For every nonempty subset s of 1, output the rule “s=>(1-s)” if confidence C of the rule “s=>(1-s)” (=support s of 1/support S of s)’ min_conf NO YES
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  APRIORI ALGORITHM EXAMPLE Marketbasket
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  MARKET BASKET ANALYSIS •Provides insight into which products tend to be purchased together and which are most amenable to promotion. • Actionable rules • Trivial rules • People who buy chalk-piece also buy duster • Inexplicable • People who buy mobile also buy bag
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  APRIORI ALGORITHM EXAMPLE TIDItems 100 1 3 4 200 2 3 5 300 1 2 3 5 400 2 5 Database D Minsup = 0.5 itemset sup. {1} 2 {2} 3 {3} 3 {4} 1 {5} 3 itemset sup. {1} 2 {2} 3 {3} 3 {5} 3 Scan D C1 L1 itemset {1 2} {1 3} {1 5} {2 3} {2 5} {3 5} itemset sup {1 2} 1 {1 3} 2 {1 5} 1 {2 3} 2 {2 5} 3 {3 5} 2 itemset sup {1 3} 2 {2 3} 2 {2 5} 3 {3 5} 2 L2 C2 C2 Scan D C3 L3 Scan Ditemset {2 3 5} itemset sup {2 3 5} 2
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  The Apriori Algorithm: Pseudo Code • Join Step: 𝐶 𝑘 is generated by joining 𝐿 𝑘−1 with itself • Prune Step: Any (k-1)-itemset that is not frequent cannot be a subset of a frequent k-itemset • Pseudo-code :𝐶 𝑘: Candidate itemset of size k 𝐿 𝑘: frequent itemset of size k L1 = {frequent items}; for (k = 1; Lk !=; k++) do begin Ck+1 = candidates generated from Lk; for each transaction t in database do increment the count of all candidates in Ck+1 that are contained in t Lk+1 = candidates in Ck+1 with min_support end return k Lk;
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  LIMITATIONS • Apriori algorithmcan be very slow and the bottleneck is candidate generation. • For example, if the transaction DB has 104 frequent 1-itemsets, they will generate 107 candidate 2-itemsets even after employing the downward closure. • To compute those with sup more than min sup, the database need to be scanned at every level. It needs (n +1 ) scans, where n is the length of the longest pattern.
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  METHODSTO IMPROVE APRIORI’SEFFICIENCY • Hash-based itemset counting: A k-itemset whose corresponding hashing bucket count is below the threshold cannot be frequent • Transaction reduction: A transaction that does not contain any frequent k-itemset is useless in subsequent scans • Partitioning: Any itemset that is potentially frequent in DB must be frequent in at least one of the partitions of DB. • Sampling: mining on a subset of given data, lower support threshold + a method to determine the completeness • Dynamic itemset counting: add new candidate itemsets only when all of their subsets are estimated to be frequent
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  APRIORI ADVANTAGES/DISADVANTAGES • Advantages •Uses large itemset property • Easily parallelized • Easy to implement • Disadvantages • Assumes transaction database is memory resident. • Requires many database scans
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