ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Deductive classifier

Imagine you have a bunch of toys and they are all different shapes and colors. Some of them are red and some of them are blue. Now, let's pretend you have a friend who is really good at telling the difference between red and blue things. They look at your toys and start separating them into two groups, one for the red toys and one for the blue toys.

This is kind of like what a deductive classifier does. It looks at a bunch of information and separates it into groups based on certain rules. For example, let's say we have some data about animals. We know that some animals have fur and some animals have feathers. We also know that some animals are predators and some animals are prey.

A deductive classifier would take that information and use it to separate the animals into different groups. It might put all the animals with fur in one group and all the animals with feathers in another group. Or it might put all the predators in one group and all the prey in another group.

Basically, a deductive classifier is a tool that helps us make sense of lots of information by breaking it down into smaller, more manageable groups. Kind of like how your friend helped you organize your toys!