Hierarchical classification

Hierarchical classification is a system of grouping things according to a hierarchy.

For other uses, see Hierarchy (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Taxonomy.

In the field of machine learning, hierarchical classification is sometimes referred to as instance space decomposition, which splits a complete multi-class problem into a set of smaller classification problems.

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