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If you're saying that neural nets should be a tool of first resort on tabular data, well, I've been watching for years and the theme has been extremely consiste
by civilized 4y ago
If you're saying that neural nets should be a tool of first resort on tabular data, well, I've been watching for years and the theme has been extremely consistent: neural nets don't bring much to the table in this case, compared to existing ML methods. XGBoost is still the Kaggler tool of choice on tabular data, for example.
- mountainriver 4y agoNot saying they should be the first tool of choice, saying that the study doesn't compare GB to more modern DL techniques like transformers. This is a good analysis https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.11959.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.11959.pdf and finds there isn't a go to architecture