Github user BenFradet commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/17130#discussion_r108442407
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+layout: global
+title: Frequent Pattern Mining
+displayTitle: Frequent Pattern Mining
+---
+
+Mining frequent items, itemsets, subsequences, or other substructures is
usually among the
+first steps to analyze a large-scale dataset, which has been an active
research topic in
+data mining for years.
+We refer users to Wikipedia's [association rule
learning](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_rule_learning)
+for more information.
+
+**Table of Contents**
+
+* This will become a table of contents (this text will be scraped).
+{:toc}
+
+## FP-Growth
+
+The FP-growth algorithm is described in the paper
+[Han et al., Mining frequent patterns without candidate
generation](http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/335191.335372),
+where "FP" stands for frequent pattern.
+Given a dataset of transactions, the first step of FP-growth is to
calculate item frequencies and identify frequent items.
+Different from
[Apriori-like](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apriori_algorithm) algorithms
designed for the same purpose,
+the second step of FP-growth uses a suffix tree (FP-tree) structure to
encode transactions without generating candidate sets
+explicitly, which are usually expensive to generate.
+After the second step, the frequent itemsets can be extracted from the
FP-tree.
+In `spark.mllib`, we implemented a parallel version of FP-growth called
PFP,
+as described in [Li et al., PFP: Parallel FP-growth for query
recommendation](http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1454008.1454027).
+PFP distributes the work of growing FP-trees based on the suffices of
transactions,
+and hence more scalable than a single-machine implementation.
+We refer users to the papers for more details.
+
+`spark.ml`'s FP-growth implementation takes the following
(hyper-)parameters:
+
+* `minSupport`: the minimum support for an itemset to be identified as
frequent.
+ For example, if an item appears 3 out of 5 transactions, it has a
support of 3/5=0.6.
+* `minConfidence`: minimum confidence for generating Association Rule. The
parameter will not affect the mining
+ for frequent itemsets,, but specify the minimum confidence for
generating association rules from frequent itemsets.
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It might be good to give an example for confidence as well since one has
been given for support
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