{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/ant-colony-optimization-for-mining-gradual","title":"Ant Colony Optimization for Mining Gradual Patterns","arxiv_id":"2208.14795","date":"2022-08-31","proceeding":null,"authors":["Dickson Odhiambo Owuor","Thomas Runkler","Anne Laurent","Joseph Orero","Edmond Menya"],"abstract":"Gradual pattern extraction is a field in (KDD) Knowledge Discovery in Databases that maps correlations between attributes of a data set as gradual dependencies. A gradual dependency may take a form of \"the more Attribute K , the less Attribute L\". In this paper, we propose an ant colony optimization technique that uses a probabilistic approach to learn and extract frequent gradual patterns. Through computational experiments on real-world data sets, we compared the performance of our ant-based algorithm to an existing gradual item set extraction algorithm and we found out that our algorithm outperforms the later especially when dealing with large data sets.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.14795v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.14795v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"ant-colony-optimization-for-mining-gradual","repo_url":"https://github.com/owuordickson/ant-colony-gp","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"attribute","task_name":"Attribute"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}