Fast-And-Frugal Trees
Decision-making models that employ a simple, graphical structure to categorize objects or make decisions by asking a series of yes/no questions sequentially, designed to be both fast in execution and frugal in the use of information.
Areas of application
- decision making
- categorization
- problem solving
- AI and machine learning
Example
A fast-and-frugal tree might be used to classify images as either animals or plants based on a series of yes/no questions such as ‘Does the image have four legs?’, ‘Does the image have leaves?’, etc.