Number of Minimal Hypergraph Transversals and Complexity of IFM with Infrequency: High in Theory, but Often Not so Much in Practice!

Domenico Saccà, Edoardo Serra

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Abstract

Hypergraph Dualization (also called as hitting set enumeration) is the problem of enumerating all minimal transversals of a hypergraph H, i.e., all minimal inclusion-wise hyperedges (i.e., sets of vertices) that intersect every hyperedge in H. Dualization is at the core of many important Artificial Intelligence (AI) problems. As a contribution to a better understanding of Dualization complexity, this paper introduces a tight upper bound to the number of minimal transversals that can be computed in polynomial time. In addition, the paper presents an interesting exploitation of the upper bound to the number of minimal transversals. In particular, the problem dealt with is characterizing the complexity of the data mining problem called IFM I (Inverse Frequent itemset Mining with Infrequency constraints), that is the problem of finding a transaction database whose frequent and infrequent itemsets satisfy a number of frequency/infrequency patterns given in input.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationAI*IA 2019 – Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 18th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, 2019, Proceedings
EditorsMario Alviano, Gianluigi Greco, Francesco Scarcello
Pages193-209
Number of pages17
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Event18th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA 2019 - Rende, Italy
Duration: 19 Nov 201922 Nov 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11946 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference18th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA 2019
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityRende
Period19/11/1922/11/19

Keywords

  • Hypergraph dualization
  • Hypergraph transversal
  • Inverse data mining

EGS Disciplines

  • Computer Sciences

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