Hierarchical classification is a system of grouping things according to a hierarchy.^[1]

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In the field of machine learning, hierarchical classification is sometimes referred to as instance space decomposition,^[2] which splits a complete multi-class problem into a set of smaller classification problems.

• Deductive classifier
• Cascading classifiers
• Faceted classification