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		itsoktocry on March 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why do tree-based models still outperform deep lea... >simple linear regression in some cases You're correct, but "in some cases" is doing a lot of work here. With the tooling where it's at, how much harder is it to apply xGBoost vs a linear model?

hazbot on March 6, 2024 [–]

model.predict() is pretty easy to call, but judging the validity of the model is still hard and very manual. Linear model is less flexible and powerful, but easier to analyse/validate.

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