BFS Versus DFS

Breadth First Search

  • Prunes infrequent itemsets

  • Uses anti-monotonicity: Every superset of an infrequent itemset is infrequent

Depth First Search

  • Prunes frequent itemsets

  • Uses monotonicity: Every subset of a frequent itemset is frequent

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