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Are there machine learning subfields that are becoming irrelevant (or is irrelevant)? [D]

I was reading a paper that surveyed the field of neural architecture search , where it said within 5 years, around 3000+ new models were proposed. The amount of compute and resources spent on this is absolutely astronomical. However, the transformer was notably not one of the models that was found…

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  1. 2026-09-27 17:51 · r/MachineLearning
    Are there machine learning subfields that are becoming irrelevant (or is irrelevant)? [D]

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