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by gnyeki 720 days ago
This area is covered by non-parametric statistics more generally. There are many other methods to non-parametrically estimate functions (that satisfy some regularity conditions). Tree-based methods are one family of such methods, and the consensus still seems to be that they perform better than neural networks on tabular data. For example:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.03253