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ANN and SVM classification

Where is ANN classification (regression) better than SVM? Some real-world examples?

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  • There are many applications where they're better, many applications where they're comparable, many applications where they are worse. It also depends on who you ask. It is hard to say this type of data or that type of data/application.

    An example where ANN, in particular convolutional neural networks, work better than SVMs would be digit classification on MNIST. Another such case is the work of Geoff Hinton's group on speech recognition using Deep Belief Networks