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With the growing size of data sets, feature selection becomes increasingly important. Taking interactions of original features into consideration will lead to extremely high dimension, especially when the features are categorical and…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Qiuqiang Lin , Chuanhou Gao

While interpretability is crucial for machine learning applications in safety-critical domains and for regulatory compliance, existing tabular foundation models like TabPFN lack transparency. Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) provide the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Andreas Mueller , Julien Siems , Harsha Nori , David Salinas , Arber Zela , Rich Caruana , Frank Hutter

Mining frequent itemsets and association rules is an essential task within data mining and data analysis. In this paper, we introduce PrefRec, a recursive algorithm for finding frequent itemsets and association rules. Its main advantage is…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Abdelkader Mokkadem , Mariane Pelletier , Louis Raimbault

How can we mine frequent path regularities from a graph with edge labels and vertex attributes? The task of association rule mining successfully discovers regular patterns in item sets and substructures. Still, to our best knowledge, this…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Yuya Sasaki , Panagiotis Karras

We consider the problem of identifying stable sets of mutually associated features in moderate or high-dimensional binary data. In this context we develop and investigate a method called Latent Association Mining for Binary Data (LAMB). The…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-11 Carson Mosso , Kelly Bodwin , Suman Chakraborty , Kai Zhang , Andrew B. Nobel

Association rules are useful to discover relationships, which are mostly hidden, between the different items in large datasets. Symbolic models are the principal tools to extract association rules. This basic technique is time-consuming,…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Shadi Al Shehabi , Abdullatif Baba

Tabular foundation models such as TabPFN and TabICL already produce full predictive distributions, yet the benchmarks used to evaluate them (TabArena, TALENT, and others) still rely almost exclusively on point-estimate metrics (RMSE,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jonas Landsgesell , Pascal Knoll

Association rules express implication formed relations among attributes in databases of itemsets. The apriori algorithm is presented, the basis for most association rule mining algorithms. It works by pruning away rules that need not be…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Niels Mündler

A fundamental assumption of most machine learning algorithms is that the training and test data are drawn from the same underlying distribution. However, this assumption is violated in almost all practical applications: machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Marvin Zhang , Henrik Marklund , Nikita Dhawan , Abhishek Gupta , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

This study proposes a dynamic rule data mining algorithm based on an improved Transformer architecture, aiming to improve the accuracy and efficiency of rule mining in a dynamic data environment. With the increase in data volume and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Jie Liu , Yiwei Zhang , Yuan Sheng , Yujia Lou , Haige Wang , Bohuan Yang

Association Rule mining is one of the most important fields in data mining and knowledge discovery. This paper proposes an algorithm that combines the simple association rules derived from basic Apriori Algorithm with the multiple minimum…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Walaa Medhat , Ahmed Hassan Yousef , Hoda Korashy Mohamed

Link prediction is a fundamental task in graph machine learning with widespread applications such as recommendation systems, drug discovery, knowledge graphs, etc. In the foundation model era, how to develop universal link prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tianyin Liao , Chunyu Hu , Yicheng Sui , Xingxuan Zhang , Peng Cui , Jianxin Li , Ziwei Zhang

Association rule mining techniques can generate a large volume of sequential data when implemented on transactional databases. Extracting insights from a large set of association rules has been found to be a challenging process. When…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Mikhail Kudriavtsev , Marija Bezbradica , Andrew McCarren

Fine-tuning tabular foundation models (TFMs) under data scarcity is challenging, as early stopping on even scarcer validation data often fails to capture true generalization performance. We propose CausalMixFT, a method that enhances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Magnus Bühler , Lennart Purucker , Frank Hutter

Deep learning architectures for supervised learning on tabular data range from simple multilayer perceptrons (MLP) to sophisticated Transformers and retrieval-augmented methods. This study highlights a major, yet so far overlooked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Yury Gorishniy , Akim Kotelnikov , Artem Babenko

Data collection is often difficult in critical fields such as medicine, physics, and chemistry. As a result, classification methods usually perform poorly with these small datasets, leading to weak predictive performance. Increasing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Andrei Margeloiu , Xiangjian Jiang , Nikola Simidjievski , Mateja Jamnik

While foundation models have revolutionized such fields as natural language processing and computer vision, their potential in graph machine learning remains largely unexplored. One of the key challenges in designing graph foundation models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Dmitry Eremeev , Gleb Bazhenov , Oleg Platonov , Artem Babenko , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

We present a new approach to classification that combines data and knowledge. In this approach, data mining is used to derive association rules (possibly with negations) from data. Those rules are leveraged to increase the predictive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Gilles Audemard , Sylvie Coste-Marquis , Pierre Marquis , Mehdi Sabiri , Nicolas Szczepanski

Apriori Algorithm is one of the most important algorithm which is used to extract frequent itemsets from large database and get the association rule for discovering the knowledge. It basically requires two important things: minimum support…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Akshita Bhandari , Ashutosh Gupta , Debasis Das

There are several mining algorithms of association rules. One of the most popular algorithms is Apriori that is used to extract frequent itemsets from large database and getting the association rule for discovering the knowledge. Based on…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-03-18 Mohammed Al-Maolegi , Bassam Arkok