From Classification to Ordinal Regression

Unlock the Potential of Your Labels

AI-generated (Midjourney): “lion-elephant hybrid, illustration, children’s book” and “elephant with lion face”“Is a lion closer to be a giraffe or an elephant?”

It is a question no one asked. Ever. Classifying lions, elephants and giraffes is a straightforward classification task. As such, it can be mostly addressed with a cross-entropy loss. Should the task of classifying someone as a child/adult/elderly be addressed in the same way?

In this blog post, we will overview best …

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