Deep Learning vs Classical Machine Learning – Towards Data Science

Over the past several years, deep learning has become the go-to technique for most AI type problems, overshadowing classical machine learning. The clear reason for this is that deep learning has repeatedly demonstrated its superior performance on a wide variety of tasks including speech, natural language, vision, and playing games. Yet although deep learning has such high performance, there are still a few advantages to using classical machine learning and a number of specific situations where you'd be much better off using something like a linear regression or decision tree rather than a big deep network. In this post we're going to compare and contrast deep learning vs classical machine learning techniques. In doing so we'll identify the pros and cons of both techniques and where/how they are best used. I hope you enjoyed this post and learned something new and useful.