Significance and Recovery of Block Structures in Binary Matrices with Noise
Significance and Recovery of Block Structures in Binary Matrices with Noise
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含噪声二元矩阵中块结构的意义及恢复
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2006
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A. Nobel
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Xing Sun;A. Nobel
Frequent itemset mining (FIM) is one of the core problems in the field of Data Mining and occupies a central place in its literature. One equivalent form of FIM can be stated as follows: given a rectangular data matrix with binary entries, find every submatrix of Is having a minimum number of columns. This paper presents a theoretical analysis of several statistical questions related to this problem when noise is present. We begin by establishing several results concerning the extremal behavior of submatrices of ones in a binary matrix with random entries. These results provide simple significance bounds for the output of FIM algorithms. We then consider the noise sensitivity of FIM algorithms under a simple binary additive noise model, and show that, even at small noise levels, large blocks of Is leave behind fragments of only logarithmic size. Thus such blocks cannot be directly recovered by FIM algorithms, which search for submatrices of all Is. On the positive side, we show how, in the presence of noise, an error-tolerant criterion can recover a square submatrix of Is against a background of Os, even when the size of the target submatrix is very small.