EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATIONS OF APRIORI AND ECLAT
Christian Borgelt · 2003
Apriori and Eclat are the best-known basic algorithms for mining frequent item sets in a set of transactions. In this paper I describe implementations of these two algorithms that use several optimizations to achieve maximum performance, w.r.t. both execution time and memory usage. The Apriori implementation is based on a prefix tree representation of the needed counters and uses a doubly recursive scheme to count the transactions. The Eclat implementation uses (sparse) bit matrices to represent transactions lists and to filter closed and maximal item sets. 1.