https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2204.03771/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38835574urn:hackerpapers:mention:2204.03771:38835574Mon, 01 Jan 2024 21:39:20 GMT<p>This is a relatively recent paper you might find interesting. https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03771 A random forest is also a universal function approximator so anything a neural net can do, so can a random forest (in theory). In practice, neural nets are easier for modern hardware to optimize while I think trees incur computational overhead due to branchiness.</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2204.03771/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>stat.ML