Supplementary Materials of Learning-to-Rank Meets Language: Boosting Language-Driven Ordering Alignment for Ordinal Classification

This supplementary material begins with a comprehensive visualization of the datasets central to our study. The specifics of our experimental settings are subsequently outlined in Section 1.2. Section 1.1 features an expanded analysis, including results from ablation studies. A key highlight of this section is the visual interpretation of the CLIP image features facilitated by t-SNE [6]. Concurrently, a comparative analysis is conducted, comparing the efficacy of interpolation-based strategies with our learning-based methods(i.e.