currentscurrents t1_j3jst6n wrote on January 9, 2023 at 1:32 AM

Reply to comment by Immarhinocerous in [Discussion] Is there any alternative of deep learning ? by sidney_lumet

I know there's a whole field of decision tree learning, but I'm not super up to date on it.

I assume neural networks are better or else we'd be using trees instead.

Immarhinocerous t1_j3km9hy wrote on January 9, 2023 at 5:09 AM

My goto model (after a linear model) is usually XGBoost. It's nice to see that the theoretical potential of a tree based model is as high as neural network. Though that's not necessarily true of XGBoost's boosted trees, they do perform well, and I really like how fast their training time is.