“…Frequent pattern mining has been one of the most popular research topics in the data mining area due to its broad applications in mining association rules, 2,6,29,33 correlations, 39,42 sequential patterns, 5,11,15,12,45 compressed sets, 34 approximate patterns, 1,7,8,19,21,40,46 steam data, 9,18,20,23,43 graph patterns, 22,36 high utility patterns, 27,28,44 top-k patterns, 26 and many other data mining tasks. These approaches have focused on three aspects.…”