PSMSP: A Parallelized Sampling-Based Approach for Mining Top-k Sequential Patterns in Database Graphs

Mingtao Lei, Xi Zhang, Jincui Yang, Binxing Fang

Abstract: We study to improve the efficiency of finding top-k sequential patterns in database graphs, where each edge (or vertex) is associated with multiple transactions and a transaction consists of a set of items. This task is to discover the subsequences of transaction sequences that frequently appear in many paths. We propose PSMSP, a Parallelized Sampling-based Approach For Mining Top-k Sequential Patterns, which involves: (a) a parallelized unbiased sequence sampling approach, and (b) a novel PSP-Tree structure to efficiently mine the patterns based on the anti-monotonicity properties. We validate our approach via extensive experiments with real-world datasets.