Generic Pattern Mining Via Data Mining Template Library

Frequent Pattern Mining (FPM) is a very powerful paradigm for mining informative and useful patterns in massive, complex datasets. In this paper we propose the Data Mining Template Library, a collection of generic containers and algorithms for data mining, as well as persistency and database management classes. DMTL provides a systematic solution to a whole class of common FPM tasks like itemset, sequence, tree and graph mining. DMTL is extensible, scalable, and high-performance for rapid response on massive datasets. A detailed set of experiments show that DMTL is competitive with special purpose algorithms designed for a particular pattern type, especially as database sizes increase.