A simple squared-error reformulation for ordinal classification
In this paper, we explore ordinal classification (in the context of deep neural networks) through a simple modification of the squared error loss which not only allows it to not only be sensitive to class ordering, but also allows the possibility of having a discrete probability distribution over the classes. Our formulation is based on the use of a softmax hidden layer, which has received relatively little attention in the literature. We empirically evaluate its performance on the Kaggle diabetic retinopathy dataset, an ordinal and high-resolution dataset and show that it outperforms all of the baselines employed.
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