@paul_rietschka I once had a good discussion with a team that did clickstream analysis and switched from explicit features and logistic regression to LSTMs. The results were similar, but switching to neural networks cut down complexity a lot.
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@paul_rietschka Before they had to optimize hyperparams again after each tweak to the features, and the pipeline had several steps. This simplified a lot going to neural networks. The net didn‘t do something wildly different after all, but it paid off.
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@paul_rietschka Nowadays, people sometimes throw complex GPU powered stuff at problems where a classical method would have worked just as well…