# 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 for more information.

[FP-Growth](/data-science-and-apache-spark/fp-growth.md)

[PrefixSpan](/data-science-and-apache-spark/prefixspan.md)


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