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A smaller search space can be an advantage when the signal is weak.
Lin and colleagues use relationships among company characteristics to determine a neural network’s structure. Instead of freely choosing every layer and connection, they let a filtered dependence graph constrain which characteristics interact.
The result is an interpretable architecture with encouraging ranking performance. It is not a clean sweep over simpler networks or a demonstrated implementation in today’s market.
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