Large Scale Frequent Pattern Mining Using MPI One-Sided Model

In this paper, we propose a work-stealing runtime - Library for Work Stealing (LibWS) - using MPI one-sided model for designing scalable FP-Growth - defacto frequent pattern mining algorithm - on large scale systems. LibWS provides locality efficient and highly scalable work-stealing techniques for load balancing on a variety of data distributions. We also propose a novel communication algorithm for FP-growth data exchange phase, which reduces the communication complexity from state-of-the-art θ(p) to θ(f + p/f), for p processes and f frequent attributed-ids. FP-Growth is implemented using LibWS and evaluated on several work distributions and support counts. An experimental evaluation of the FP-Growth on LibWS using 4096 processes on an InfiniBand Cluster demonstrates excellent efficiency for several work distributions (91% efficiency for Power-law and 93% for Poisson). The proposed distributed FPTree merging algorithm provides 38x communication speedup on 4096 cores.