Hybrid Parallel Frequent Itemsets Mining Algorithm by Using N-List Structure

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Hybrid Parallel Frequent Itemsets Mining Algorithm by Using N-List Structure

LIU Weiming, ZHANG Chi, MAO Yimin⁺()

School of Information Engineering, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, Jiangxi 341000, China

Received:2020-08-21 Revised:2020-11-03 Online:2022-01-01 Published:2020-11-19
About author:LIU Weiming, born in 1964, professor, M.S. supervisor. His research interests include data mining and big data.
ZHANG Chi, born in 1994, M.S. candidate. His research interests include data mining and big data.
MAO Yimin, born in 1970, Ph.D., professor, M.S. supervisor. Her research interests include data mining and big data.
Supported by:
National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFC1504705);National Natural Science Foundation of China(41562019);Science and Technology Project of Jiangxi Provincial Education Department(GJJ151528);Science and Technology Project of Jiangxi Provincial Education Department(GJJ151531)

采用N-list结构的混合并行频繁项集挖掘算法

刘卫明, 张弛, 毛伊敏⁺()

江西理工大学信息工程学院,江西赣州 341000

通讯作者: + E-mail: mymlyc@163.com
作者简介:刘卫明（1964-）,男,江西新余人,教授,硕士生导师,主要研究方向为数据挖掘、大数据。
张弛（1994-）,男,河南洛阳人,硕士研究生,主要研究方向为数据挖掘、大数据。
毛伊敏（1970-）,女,新疆伊犁人,博士,教授,硕士生导师,主要研究方向为数据挖掘、大数据。
基金资助:
国家重点研发计划(2018YFC1504705);国家自然科学基金(41562019);江西省教育厅科技项目(GJJ151528);江西省教育厅科技项目(GJJ151531)

Abstract

Abstract:

Aiming at the problem of unbalanced load, bad efficiency of N-list merge and redundant search for each node based on parallel frequent itemset mining algorithm MRPrePost (parallel PrePost algorithm based on MapReduce), this paper proposes a hybrid parallel frequent itemset mining algorithm based on N-list (HP-FIMBN). Firstly, a load estimation function (LE) is designed to calculate the load of each item in F-list, and a grouping method based on greedy strategy (GM-GS) is proposed, which not only deals with the problem of unbalanced load in the process of data partitioning, but also decreases the size of sub-PPC-tree on local node. Secondly, in order to accelerate the completion of the merging of two N-list structures, it designs an early abandon strategy (EAS), which can not only efficiently avoid invalid calculations in the merging process, but also does not need to traverse the initial N-list structure to get the final result. Finally, the set-enumeration tree is adopted as the search space, a superset equivalent strategy (SES) is proposed to avoid redundant search in the mining process and the final mining results are generated. Experimental results show that the modified algorithm has better performance on mining frequent itemsets in big data environment.

Key words: frequent item mining, N-list, greedy strategy, set-enumeration tree, superset equivalent strategy (SES)

摘要：

针对大数据环境下并行MRPrePost频繁项集挖掘算法中存在计算节点负载不均衡,N-list合并效率低以及冗余搜索等问题,提出了基于N-list结构的混合并行频繁项集挖掘算法HP-FIMBN。首先,设计负载量估计函数(LE)来计算出频繁1项集F-list中每一项的负载量,同时提出基于贪心策略的分组方法(GM-GS)将F-list中的每一项根据其负载量进行均匀分组,既解决了数据划分中计算节点负载不均衡的问题,又降低了集群中各节点上子PPC-Tree树的规模;其次,提出预先放弃策略(EAS),该策略不仅能有效避免合并过程中的无效计算,而且不需要遍历初始N-list结构就能得到最终的N-list,极大地提高了N-list结构的合并效率;最后,采用集合枚举树作为搜索空间,并提出超集等价剪枝策略(SES)来避免挖掘过程中的冗余搜索,生成最终的挖掘结果。实验结果表明,该算法在大数据环境下进行频繁项集挖掘具有较好的效果。

关键词: 频繁项集挖掘, N-list结构, 贪心策略, 集合枚举树, 超集等价剪枝策略（SES）

CLC Number:

TP311

LIU Weiming, ZHANG Chi, MAO Yimin. Hybrid Parallel Frequent Itemsets Mining Algorithm by Using N-List Structure[J]. Journal of Frontiers of Computer Science and Technology, 2022, 16(1): 120-136.

刘卫明, 张弛, 毛伊敏. 采用N-list结构的混合并行频繁项集挖掘算法[J]. 计算机科学与探索, 2022, 16(1): 120-136.

Figures/Tables 21

Table 1 Transaction database - DB

ID	Items
1	a,c,g,f
2	e,b,h
3	e,c,b,i
4	b,c,e
5	b,f,a,c,e
6	b,c,f,a

Table 2 Process of getting F-list

原始数据	Map	Combine	Reduce
a,c,g,f	<a:1>,<c:1>,<g:1>, <f:1>	<a:3>, <b:5> <c:5>, <g:1> <e:4>, <f:3> <h:1>, <i:1>	<b:5> <c:5> <e:4> <a:3> <f:3>
e,b,h	<e:1>,<b:1>,<h:1>
e,c,b,i	<e:1>,<c:1>,<b:1>,<i:1>
b,c,e	<b:1><c:1>,<e:1>
b,f,a,c,e	<b:1>,<f:1>,<a:1>,<c:1>,<e:1>
b, f, c, a	<b:1>,<f:1>,<c:1>,<a:1>

Table 3 Without using GM-GS to group F-list

F-list	L-list	G-list	负载量
{(b:5),(c:5),(e:4),(a:3),(f:3)}	{(e:4),(a:3),(f:3),(c:2),(b:1)}	gid=1:{(e,f, b)} gid=2:{(a,c)}	8 5

Table 4 Using GM-GS to group F-list

F-list	L-list	G-list	负载量
{(b:5),(c:5),(e:4),(a:3),(f:3)}	{(e:4),(a:3),(f:3),(c:2),(b:1)}	gid=1:{(f, c, b)} gid=2:{(e,a)}	6 7

Table 5 Each group data allocated to Reducestage by using GM-GS method

Gid	属于该组的记录
1	1-(c,a,f);2-(b);3-(b,c);4-(b,c);5-(b,c,e,a,f);6-(b,c,a,f)
2	1-(c,a);2-(b,e);3-(b,c,e);4-(b,c,e);5-(b,c,e,a);6-(b,c,a)

Table 6 Each group data allocated to Reducestage without using GM-GS method

Gid	属于该组的记录
1	1-(c,a,f);2-(b,e);3-(b,c,e);4-(b,c,e);5-(b,c,e,a,f);6-(b,c,a,f)
2	1-(c,a);2-( $∅$ );3-(b,c);4-(b,c);5-(b,c,e,a);6-(b,c,a)

Table 6 Each group data allocated to Reducestage without using GM-GS method

Gid	属于该组的记录
1	1-(c,a,f);2-(b,e);3-(b,c,e);4-(b,c,e);5-(b,c,e,a,f);6-(b,c,a,f)
2	1-(c,a);2-( $∅$ );3-(b,c);4-(b,c);5-(b,c,e,a);6-(b,c,a)

Fig.1 PPC-Tree

Table 7 Comparison of two methods for merging N-list

步骤	MRPrePost中N-list合并过程	EAS合并策略
1	$N - lis t be = {}$	$N - lis t be = {}$
2	$N - lis t be = {(4,10,1)}$	$N - lis t be = {(4,10,1)}$
3	$N - lis t be = {(4,10,1), (4,10,3)}$	$N - lis t be = {(4,10,4)}$
4	$N - lis t be = {(4,10,4)}$

Table 7 Comparison of two methods for merging N-list

步骤	MRPrePost中N-list合并过程	EAS合并策略
1	$N - lis t be = {}$	$N - lis t be = {}$
2	$N - lis t be = {(4,10,1)}$	$N - lis t be = {(4,10,1)}$
3	$N - lis t be = {(4,10,1), (4,10,3)}$	$N - lis t be = {(4,10,4)}$
4	$N - lis t be = {(4,10,4)}$

Fig.2 Set-enumeration tree

Fig.3 Set-enumeration tree after pruning

Fig.4 Comparison of PPC-Tree

Table 8 N-list sequence of each node in each group

Item	(gid=1:c,f,b)	Item	(gid=2:e,a)
b	{(4,9,5)}	b	{(3,7,5)}
c	{(1,2,1),(5,8,4)}	c	{(1,1,1),(5,6,4)}
e	{(6,5,3)}	e	{(4,2,1),(6,4,3)}
a	{(2,1,1),(9,7,1)}	a	{(2,0,1),(7,3,1),(8,5,1)}
f	{(3,0,1),(8,3,1),(10,6,1)}	—	—

Fig.5 Local set-enumeration tree on different nodes

Table 9 All frequent itemsets

频繁项集	计算节点1	计算节点2
频繁1项集	(b:5),(c:5),(f:3)	(e:4),(a:3)
频繁2项集	(bc:4),(bf:2),(cf:2),(af:3)	(be:4),(ba:2)(ce:3),(ca:3)
频繁3项集	(caf:3),(baf:3)	(bce:3),(bca:2)
频繁4项集	(bcaf:2)	—

Table 10 Basic configuration of nodes in experimental environment

主机名	IP地址	角色
Master	192.168.1.109	Master/JobTracker/NameNode
Slaver_1	192.168.1.110	Slaver/TaskTracker/DateNode
Slaver_2	192.168.1.111	Slaver/TaskTracker/DateNode
Slaver_3	192.168.1.112	Slaver/TaskTracker/DateNode

Table 11 Experimental data sets

项目	$webdocs$	$kosarak$	$Susy$	$accident$
记录数/条	1 692 082	990 002	5 000 000	340 183
项数/个	5 267 656	41 270	190	468
大小/MB	1 481.9	32.1	321.0	35.5

Table 11 Experimental data sets

项目	$webdocs$	$kosarak$	$Susy$	$accident$
记录数/条	1 692 082	990 002	5 000 000	340 183
项数/个	5 267 656	41 270	190	468
大小/MB	1 481.9	32.1	321.0	35.5

Fig.6 Acceleration rate of algorithm on different computing nodes

Fig.7 Comparison of algorithm running time with or without GM-GS strategy

Table 12 F-list size of four data setswith different support degrees

数据集	支持数
数据集	1 000	5 000	20 000	100 000
webdocs	17 104	6 385	2 420	556
kosarak	1 253	156	27	4
Susy	117	112	99	91
accident	207	151	102	32

Fig.8 Comparison of running time of four algorithms on different data sets

Fig.9 Comparison of memory usage of different algorithms on different data sets

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