“…Mining ARs, including ARs, minimal non‐redundant association rules (MNARs), and most generalization association rules (MGARs), is a model being widely used in market basket analysis, online e‐commerce such as Amazon, Alibaba, and so on, and several other recommendation systems. Traditional approaches for mining ARs consist of two steps: mining frequent itemsets (FIs)/frequent closed itemsets (FCIs)/frequent maximal itemsets (FMIs) (FIs/FCIs/FMIs), and generating rules from those itemsets. Some variants of FIs such as high utility itemsets (itemsets whose utility satisfies a given threshold), top‐ k high utility itemsets (top‐k itemsets with highest utility), weighted pattern (pattern with weighted items), erasable itemsets (itemsets can be eliminated but do not greatly affect the factory's profit), weighted erasable patterns (erasable itemsets considered the distinct weight of each item), and so on are proposed.…”