cs.AIJun 8, 2026

Frequency-based Constrained Sampling for Interval Patterns

Authors: Djawad BekkouchaAbdelkader OualiBruno Crémilleux

Organizations: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique (LISN), Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, 91405 Orsay, France · Université Caen Normandie, ENSICAEN, CNRS, Normandie Univ, GREYC UMR6072, F-14000 Caen, France

Abstract

Output space pattern sampling is a powerful alternative to exhaustive pattern mining for exploring large pattern spaces, as it enables users to focus on representative patterns drawn according to a chosen interestingness measure. In this paper, we address the problem of sampling interval patterns under user-defined syntactic constraints. We introduce CFips, a sampling approach that incorporates constraints directly into the sampling procedure. The approach relies on a multi-step sampling framework and supports several syntactic constraints by decomposing them into elementary predicates on interval bounds while preserving exact sampling guarantees. We formally prove that CFips samples interval patterns proportionally to their frequency within the constrained pattern space. The experimental results show that integrating constraints into the sampling procedure enables to complete mining tasks that would otherwise fail within a given time out.

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