Finding low-entropy sets and trees from binary data

Hannes Heikinheimo, Eino Hinkkanen, Heikki Mannila, Taneli Mielikäinen, Jouni K. Seppänen · 2007

The discovery of subsets with special properties from binary data hasbeen one of the key themes in pattern discovery. Pattern classes suchas frequent itemsets stress the co-occurrence of the value 1 in the data. While this choice makes sense in the context of sparse binary data, it disregards potentially interesting subsets of attributes that have some other type of dependency structure.

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