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At least for tabular data there is no clear evidence that a neural network is superior than a tree-based model [0]. Many Data Scientist colleagues go straight
by sebastiansm 4y ago
At least for tabular data there is no clear evidence that a neural network is superior than a tree-based model [0].
Many Data Scientist colleagues go straight to neural networks thinking that they will have a better result.
Considering the complexity and computational cost, I think it is convenient to evaluate which tool to use for each case.
[0] https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2022/deep-learning-for-tabular-data.html https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2022/deep-learning-for-tab...
- mark_l_watson 4y agoFive years ago, I trained a GAN deep model to synthesize data based a tabular training data. Colleagues extended thus to also handle categorical and string data. Models trained on synthetic data performed well in withheld real data. I mention this as some evidence that deep models subsume conventional ML.