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Learning from a label distribution has achieved promising results on ordinal regression tasks such as facial age and head pose estimation wherein, the concept of adaptive label distribution learning (ALDL) has drawn lots of attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Qiang Li , Jingjing Wang , Zhaoliang Yao , Yachun Li , Pengju Yang , Jingwei Yan , Chunmao Wang , Shiliang Pu

In supervised learning, we typically leverage a fully labeled dataset to design methods for function estimation or prediction. In many practical situations, we are able to obtain alternative feedback, possibly at a low cost. A broad goal is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-27 Yichong Xu , Sivaraman Balakrishnan , Aarti Singh , Artur Dubrawski

Despite the pervasiveness of ordinal labels in supervised learning, it remains common practice in deep learning to treat such problems as categorical classification using the categorical cross entropy loss. Recent methods attempting to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Garrett Jenkinson , Gavin R. Oliver , Kia Khezeli , John Kalantari , Eric W. Klee

Classification of ordinal data is one of the most important tasks of relation learning. In this thesis a novel framework for ordered classes is proposed. The technique reduces the problem of classifying ordered classes to the standard…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jaime S. Cardoso

Ordinal regression is a specialized supervised problem where the labels show an inherent order. The order distinguishes it from normal multi-class problem. Support Vector Ordinal Regression, as an outstanding ordinal regression model, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Haorui Xiang , Zhichang Wu , Guoxu Li , Rong Wang , Feiping Nie , Xuelong Li

In the transductive setting, where the full graph is observed but node labels are only partially available, progress in semi-supervised node classification has largely focused on architectural innovation. In this paper, we revisit an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Brown Zaz , Mar Gonzàlez I Català , Ferran Hernandez Caralt , Moshe Eliasof , Pietro Liò

Ordinal Regression (OR) aims to model the ordering information between different data categories, which is a crucial topic in multi-label learning. An important class of approaches to OR models the problem as a linear combination of basis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Chang Li , Maarten de Rijke

It is often desired that ordinal regression models yield unimodal predictions. However, in many recent works this characteristic is either absent, or implemented using soft targets, which do not guarantee unimodal outputs at inference. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-19 Uri Shaham , Igal Zaidman , Jonathan Svirsky

Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) with mismatched classes deals with the problem that the classes-of-interests in the limited labeled data is only a subset of the classes in massive unlabeled data. As a result, the classes only possessed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Zhuo Huang , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Jian Yang , Chen Gong

Ordinal regression (OR, also called ordinal classification) is classification of ordinal data, in which the underlying target variable is categorical and considered to have a natural ordinal relation for the underlying explanatory variable.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Ryoya Yamasaki

For many text classification tasks, there is a major problem posed by the lack of labeled data in a target domain. Although classifiers for a target domain can be trained on labeled text data from a related source domain, the accuracy of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Radu Tudor Ionescu , Andrei M. Butnaru

Ordinal classification problems, where labels exhibit a natural order, are prevalent in high-stakes fields such as medicine and finance. Accurate uncertainty quantification, including the decomposition into aleatoric (inherent variability)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Stefan Haas , Eyke Hüllermeier

Conformal inference is a fundamental and versatile tool that provides distribution-free guarantees for many machine learning tasks. We consider the transductive setting, where decisions are made on a test sample of $m$ new points, giving…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-20 Ulysse Gazin , Gilles Blanchard , Etienne Roquain

In many real-world settings, machine learning models need to identify user inputs that are out-of-domain (OOD) so as to avoid performing wrong actions. This work focuses on a challenging case of OOD detection, where no labels for in-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Di Jin , Shuyang Gao , Seokhwan Kim , Yang Liu , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Threshold methods are popular for ordinal regression problems, which are classification problems for data with a natural ordinal relation. They learn a one-dimensional transformation (1DT) of observations of the explanatory variable, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ryoya Yamasaki , Toshiyuki Tanaka

Deep neural networks are a family of computational models that are naturally suited to the analysis of hierarchical data such as, for instance, sequential data with the use of recurrent neural networks. In the other hand, ordinal regression…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-08 Louis Falissard , Karim Bounebache , Grégoire Rey

The aim of ordinal classification is to predict the ordered labels of the output from a set of observed inputs. Interval-valued data refers to data in the form of intervals. For the first time, interval-valued data and interval-valued…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-06 Aleix Alcacer , Marina Martínez-Garcia , Irene Epifanio

Transductive learning is a supervised machine learning task in which, unlike in traditional inductive learning, the unlabelled data that require labelling are a finite set and are available at training time. Similarly to inductive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Lorenzo Volpi , Alejandro Moreo , Fabrizio Sebastiani

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is. Modeling data uncertainty is essential for regression, especially in unconstrained settings. Traditionally the direct regression formulation is considered and the uncertainty is modeled by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Wanhua Li , Xiaoke Huang , Jiwen Lu , Jianjiang Feng , Jie Zhou

Polynomial regression is widely used and can help to express nonlinear patterns. However, considering very high polynomial orders may lead to overfitting and poor extrapolation ability for unseen data. The paper presents a method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Andrei Ivanov , Stefan Maria Ailuro