Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a simple technique he has used with good success, previously unpublished and without a standard name. The goal of an ordinal classification problem ...

Ordinal regression and classification methods form a vital branch of statistical learning wherein the outcome variable possesses an inherent order. Unlike conventional classification problems, where ...

Monotonicity constraints represent a vital form of prior knowledge in machine learning, particularly within classification tasks where a natural ordering exists among class labels. In such contexts, ...

Unstructured data refer to information that lacks certain structures and cannot be organized in a predefined fashion. Unstructured data often involve words, texts, graphs, objects, or multimedia types ...