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The killer feature of DTs is how fast they can be. I worked very hard on a project to try and replace DT based classifiers with small NNs in a low latency appli
by jebarker 7mo ago
The killer feature of DTs is how fast they can be. I worked very hard on a project to try and replace DT based classifiers with small NNs in a low latency application. NNs could achieve non-trivial gains in classification accuracy but remained two orders of magnitude higher latency at inference time.
- levocardia 7mo agoAlso, decision trees (but not their boosted or bagged variants) are easy (well, easy-ish) to port manually to an edge device that needs to run inference. Small vanilla NNs are as well, but many other popular "classical" ML algorithms are not.
- bawis 7mo ago>> but many other popular "classical" ML algorithms are not Examples ?