Well-tunedSimpleNetsExcelon TabularDatasets

Weempirically assess theimpact oftheseregularization cocktailsforMLPs ina large-scale empirical study comprising 40 tabular datasets and demonstrate that (i) well-regularized plain MLPs significantly outperform recent state-of-the-art specialized neural network architectures, and (ii) they even outperform strong traditionalMLmethods,suchasXGBoost.