Hierarchical
classification
Classification is the activity of assigning objects to some pre-existing classes or categories. This is distinct from the task of establishing the classes themselves (for example through cluster analysis). Examples include diagnostic tests, identif ...
is a system of grouping things according to a hierarchy.
In the field of
machine learning
Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...
, hierarchical classification is sometimes referred to as instance space decomposition,
which splits a complete
multi-class problem into a set of smaller classification problems.
See also
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Deductive classifier
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Cascading classifiers
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Faceted classification
References
External links
Hierarchical Classification – a useful approach for predicting thousands of possible categories
Classification algorithms
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