diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/sql/perf/mllib/data/ItemSetGenerator.scala b/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/sql/perf/mllib/data/ItemSetGenerator.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ec47b87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/sql/perf/mllib/data/ItemSetGenerator.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+package com.databricks.spark.sql.perf.mllib.data
+
+import scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer
+
+import org.apache.spark.mllib.random.{PoissonGenerator, RandomDataGenerator}
+
+class ItemSetGenerator(
+    val numItems: Int,
+    val avgItemSetSize: Int)
+  extends RandomDataGenerator[Array[String]] {
+
+  assert(avgItemSetSize > 2)
+  assert(numItems > 2)
+
+  private val rng = new java.util.Random()
+  private val itemSetSizeRng = new PoissonGenerator(avgItemSetSize - 2)
+  private val itemRng = new PoissonGenerator(numItems / 2.0)
+
+  override def setSeed(seed: Long) {
+    rng.setSeed(seed)
+    itemSetSizeRng.setSeed(seed)
+    itemRng.setSeed(seed)
+  }
+
+  override def nextValue(): Array[String] = {
+    // 1. generate size of itemset
+    val size = DataGenUtil.nextPoisson(itemSetSizeRng, v => v >= 1 && v <= numItems).toInt
+    val arrayBuff = new ArrayBuffer[Int](size + 2)
+
+    // 2. generate items in the itemset
+    var i = 0
+    while (i < size) {
+      val nextVal = DataGenUtil.nextPoisson(itemRng, (item: Double) => {
+        item >= 0 && item < numItems && !arrayBuff.contains(item)
+      }).toInt
+      arrayBuff.append(nextVal)
+      i += 1
+    }
+
+    // 3 generate association rules by adding two computed items
+
+    // 3.1 add a new item = (firstItem + numItems / 2) % numItems
+    val newItem1 = (arrayBuff(0) + numItems / 2) % numItems
+    if (!arrayBuff.contains(newItem1)) {
+      arrayBuff.append(newItem1)
+    }
+    // 3.2 add a new item = (firstItem + secondItem) % numItems
+    if (arrayBuff.size >= 2) {
+      val newItem2 = (arrayBuff(0) + arrayBuff(1)) % numItems
+      if (!arrayBuff.contains(newItem2)) {
+        arrayBuff.append(newItem2)
+      }
+    }
+    arrayBuff.map(_.toString).toArray
+  }
+
+  override def copy(): ItemSetGenerator
+    = new ItemSetGenerator(numItems, avgItemSetSize)
+}
diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/sql/perf/mllib/data/dataGeneration.scala b/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/sql/perf/mllib/data/dataGeneration.scala
index e0d98cf..d283815 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/sql/perf/mllib/data/dataGeneration.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/sql/perf/mllib/data/dataGeneration.scala
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ import org.apache.spark.ml.linalg.Vector
 import org.apache.spark.ml.recommendation.ALS.Rating
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.random._
 import org.apache.spark.rdd.{PairRDDFunctions, RDD}
-import org.apache.spark.sql.{SQLContext, DataFrame}
-
+import org.apache.spark.sql.{DataFrame, SQLContext}
 
 object DataGenerator {
 
@@ -128,6 +127,22 @@ object DataGenerator {
       new DocGenerator(vocabSize, avgDocLength), numExamples, numPartitions, seed)
     sql.createDataFrame(rdd.map(Tuple1.apply)).toDF(dataColName)
   }
+
+  def generateItemSet(
+      sql: SQLContext,
+      numExamples: Long,
+      seed: Long,
+      numPartitions: Int,
+      numItems: Int,
+      avgItemSetSize: Int): DataFrame = {
+    val rdd: RDD[Array[String]] = RandomRDDs.randomRDD(
+      sql.sparkContext,
+      new ItemSetGenerator(numItems, avgItemSetSize),
+      numExamples,
+      numPartitions,
+      seed)
+    sql.createDataFrame(rdd.map(Tuple1.apply)).toDF("items")
+  }
 }
 
 
diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/sql/perf/mllib/fpm/FPGrowth.scala b/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/sql/perf/mllib/fpm/FPGrowth.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..35cf8a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/sql/perf/mllib/fpm/FPGrowth.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package com.databricks.spark.sql.perf.mllib.fpm
+
+import org.apache.spark.ml
+import org.apache.spark.ml.PipelineStage
+import org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame
+
+import com.databricks.spark.sql.perf.mllib._
+import com.databricks.spark.sql.perf.mllib.OptionImplicits._
+import com.databricks.spark.sql.perf.mllib.data.DataGenerator
+
+
+/** Object containing methods used in performance tests for FPGrowth */
+object FPGrowth extends BenchmarkAlgorithm with TestFromTraining {
+
+  def trainingDataSet(ctx: MLBenchContext): DataFrame = {
+    import ctx.params._
+
+    DataGenerator.generateItemSet(
+      ctx.sqlContext,
+      numExamples,
+      ctx.seed(),
+      numPartitions,
+      numItems,
+      itemSetSize)
+  }
+
+  override def getPipelineStage(ctx: MLBenchContext): PipelineStage = {
+    new ml.fpm.FPGrowth()
+      .setItemsCol("items")
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/sql/perf/results.scala b/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/sql/perf/results.scala
index 1ec93fd..a9f46c1 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/sql/perf/results.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/sql/perf/results.scala
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ class MLParams(
     val elasticNetParam: Option[Double] = None,
     val family: Option[String] = None,
     val featureArity: Option[Int] = None,
+    val itemSetSize: Option[Int] = None,
     val k: Option[Int] = None,
     val link: Option[String] = None,
     val maxIter: Option[Int] = None,
@@ -164,6 +165,7 @@ class MLParams(
       elasticNetParam: Option[Double] = elasticNetParam,
       family: Option[String] = family,
       featureArity: Option[Int] = featureArity,
+      itemSetSize: Option[Int] = itemSetSize,
       k: Option[Int] = k,
       link: Option[String] = link,
       maxIter: Option[Int] = maxIter,
@@ -181,8 +183,8 @@ class MLParams(
     new MLParams(randomSeed = randomSeed, numExamples = numExamples,
       numTestExamples = numTestExamples, numPartitions = numPartitions,
       bucketizerNumBuckets = bucketizerNumBuckets, depth = depth, docLength = docLength,
-      elasticNetParam = elasticNetParam, family = family, featureArity = featureArity, k = k,
-      link = link, maxIter = maxIter,
+      elasticNetParam = elasticNetParam, family = family, featureArity = featureArity,
+      itemSetSize = itemSetSize, k = k, link = link, maxIter = maxIter,
       numClasses = numClasses, numFeatures = numFeatures, numInputCols = numInputCols,
       numItems = numItems, numUsers = numUsers, optimizer = optimizer, regParam = regParam,
       rank = rank, smoothing = smoothing, tol = tol, vocabSize = vocabSize)
diff --git a/src/main/scala/configs/mllib-small.yaml b/src/main/scala/configs/mllib-small.yaml
index 111df0c..d01f2be 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/configs/mllib-small.yaml
+++ b/src/main/scala/configs/mllib-small.yaml
@@ -146,3 +146,8 @@ benchmarks:
       depth: 3
       numFeatures: 5
       maxIter: 3
+  - name: fpm.FPGrowth
+    params:
+      numExamples: 200
+      numItems: 6
+      itemSetSize: 3