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Multi-way set enumeration in real-valued tensors

2009

Conference Paper

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The analysis of n-ary relations receives attention in many different fields, for instance biology, web mining, and social studies. In the basic setting, there are n sets of instances, and each observation associates n instances, one from each set. A common approach to explore these n-way data is the search for n-set patterns. An n-set pattern consists of specific subsets of the n instance sets such that all possible n- ary associations between the corresponding instances are observed. This provides a higher-level view of the data, revealing associative relationships between groups of instances. Here, we generalize this approach in two respects. First, we tolerate missing observations to a certain degree, that means we are also interested in n-sets where most (although not all) of the possible combinations have been recorded in the data. Second, we take association weights into account. More precisely, we propose a method to enumerate all n- sets that satisfy a minimum threshold with respect to the average association weight. Non-observed associations obtain by default a weight of zero. Technically, we solve the enumeration task using a reverse search strategy, which allows for effective pruning of the search space. In addition, our algorithm provides a ranking of the solutions and can consider further constraints. We show experimental results on artificial and real-world data sets from different domains.

Author(s): Georgii, E. and Tsuda, K. and Schölkopf, B.
Journal: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Data Mining using Matrices and Tensors (DMMT 2009)
Pages: 32-41
Year: 2009
Month: June
Day: 0
Editors: C Ding and T Li
Publisher: ACM Press

Department(s): Empirical Inference
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)

DOI: 10.1145/1581114.1581118
Event Name: 2nd Workshop on Data Mining using Matrices and Tensors (DMMT/KDD 2009)
Event Place: Paris, France

Address: New York, NY, USA
Digital: 0
ISBN: 978-1-60558-673-1
Language: en
Organization: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
School: Biologische Kybernetik

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BibTex

@inproceedings{5932,
  title = {Multi-way set enumeration in real-valued tensors},
  author = {Georgii, E. and Tsuda, K. and Sch{\"o}lkopf, B.},
  journal = {Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Data Mining using Matrices and Tensors  (DMMT 2009)},
  pages = {32-41},
  editors = {C Ding and T Li},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft},
  school = {Biologische Kybernetik},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  month = jun,
  year = {2009},
  doi = {10.1145/1581114.1581118},
  month_numeric = {6}
}