Awesome enty

One more detail, are you doing any encoding before inputting them into the NN part? I remembered [[Darkcanuck]] had some rather succesful attempt in NN (end-to-end), by binning features like the old VCS ways. 

And since most features are essentially tabular, apart from the NN approaches with explicit feature interaction, GBDT can work very well as some feature transformation & interaction tool. There are also approaches using GBDT to do clustering, by converting clustering into classifying “dense” & “sparse” of space.