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Yes, but there's no free lunch[1].

In theory, on average over all possible problems all algorithms are the same.

In practice, that's a pretty useless piece of information, since the only thing that matters is your problem.

Tabular data, and not huge amounts? Tree-based systems are your friend. Vast amounts of binary data (or increasingly text)? Deep neural networks will get you the best result.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem



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