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    Area of Science:

    • Machine Learning
    • Data Science
    • Computer Science

    Background:

    • Quantification learning predicts class distributions in bags of unseen examples.
    • Ordinal quantification, predicting proportions across ordered categories (e.g., star ratings), is under-researched.
    • Existing methods for multiclass quantification are not optimized for ordinal data.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To comprehensively study ordinal quantification.
    • To evaluate existing multiclass quantification algorithms for ordinal tasks.
    • To propose novel ordinal quantification methods using Earth mover's distance (EMD).

    Main Methods:

    • Analysis of existing multiclass quantification algorithms.
    • Development of three new ordinal quantification methods based on EMD.
    • Empirical comparison of 14 algorithms on diverse datasets.
    • Introduction of an EMD-based scoring function for statistical analysis.

    Main Results:

    • Methods utilizing EMD or related criteria significantly outperform others.
    • Two newly proposed EMD-based methods demonstrate superior performance.
    • Empirical validation across synthetic and benchmark datasets confirms findings.

    Conclusions:

    • EMD-based approaches are highly effective for ordinal quantification.
    • The proposed methods offer significant improvements over existing techniques.
    • Further research into EMD for ordinal data is warranted.