arXiv:2606. 07599v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ordinal Regression (OR) aims to predict target values with inherent order, underpinning critical applications across diverse domains, from recommender systems to computer vision.
By Hongxu Ma, Lin Wang, Chenghou Jin, Han Zhou, Jie Zhang, Xiaoyu Yang, Chunjie Chen, Jihong Guan, Shuigeng Zhou
arXiv:2607. 08103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rank estimation under label noise poses a fundamental challenge, as ordinal annotations often exhibit structured uncertainty rather than simple label corruption.
By Chaewon Lee, Seon-Ho Lee, Chang-Su Kim
arXiv:2608.20999v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimodal LLMs apply the language model interface to visual inputs, where ordinal regression tasks such as age estimation, image quality assessment, a...
By Haiming Li, Yingsheng Liu, Jingmin Zhu, Siyuan Yan, Xieji Li, Jiajun Sun, Zhen Yu, Zongyuan Ge
arXiv:2607. 08109v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose contrastive order learning (ConOrd), a contrastive learning framework for ordinal regression that integrates the strengths of contrastive learning and order learning.
By Chaewon Lee, BeomJun Shim, Kwang Pyo Choi, Chang-Su Kim
We propose contrastive order learning (ConOrd), a contrastive learning framework for ordinal regression that integrates the strengths of contrastive learning and order learning. While contrastive learning effectively leverages all samples in a batch, it typically ignores the inherent ordering among rank labels.
Large language models (LLMs) used for ordinal classification exhibit positional bias, where changes in label order, demonstration order, and demonstration placement affect predictions. Systematic experiments across ten frontier LLMs, eight prompt/task/model factors, and five datasets reveal that all models are sensitive to these positional sources, and that accuracy and stability often diverge. Various correction methods, including pointwise, pairwise, and listwise inference, do not reliably mitigate the bias, though a comparison-based listwise approach shows the best overall balance yet varies across models and bias types.
By Yu Wang, Zhe Zhou, Menglin Liu, Ge Shi