ITT: Whether SVMs are still relevant in the deep learning era. Some junior researchers will say neural networks are all you need. Industry folks will talk about how they still use decision trees.

Personally, I'm quite bullish on the resurgence of SVMs as SOTA. What did it for me was Mikhail Belkin's talk at IAS.[1]

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?index=15&list=PLdDZb3TwJPZ5dqqg_...