[R] Deep Forest: Towards an Alternative to Deep Neural Networks [code] • r/MachineLearning

The paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08835v2 My first pass seems to say that, when the authors report competitive data, it's on simple datasets compared to simple (sometimes exceedingly so, e.g. LeNet-5) deep networks, and when gcForest is compared to even moderately modern (e.g., AlexNet) architectures, the performance is nowhere near competitive. Is this worth reading in depth?