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Ranking and ordinal regression algorithms in Python
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"parallel" multinomial logit #2

Open paolo-losi opened 11 years ago

paolo-losi commented 11 years ago

Hi Fabian,

I'm working on a dense problem (n_samples=1000, n_features=32000) for which classical formulation of ordinal logistic regression is somewhat too constrained.

As an alternative I was considering standard multinomial logit with the constraint that the sigmoid functions should be parallel.

This would be less restricted than ordinal logistic regression since the "slopes" of the sigmoids would be allowed to be different while avoiding any crossing of the curves.

The questions are:

1) Do you thing such an optimization target loss would be useful? Would it be in scope with minirank? Are you aware of any paper related to this approach?

2) Since manual derivation of gradient and hessian is quite heavy and error prone, is there any automatic differentiation framework that you have tested or you would suggest? Have you done any experiment with automatic differentiation?

3) While being definitely out of scope for minirank. I would be nice to have a l2 penalized logistic package for dense/sparse problems based on pytron solving multinomial logit (with/without parallel constraint) and ordinal regression based on pytron ...

Thanks! Paolo