# best NN architecture for point prediction

I'm training to predict a single value y (continuos in [0,1]) based on a number of variables x1, ..., x45. These are variables related to various measurements of the same value using different techniques - some of them may be irrelevant.

1) Would it make sense to use a CNN? I read that it works best for things like image recognition/classification, and this is clearly not the case

2) Which NN would work best? The benchmarks would be the naive linear regression and the average x

• This question cannot be answered correctly without further information about the function you are trying to regress. One chosen regression model will not work best for all possible function mappings from IR to IR. It heavily depends on the underlying function. Jun 2 '20 at 22:19

Since your outcome $$y$$ is restricted, you should check „beta regression“ in which the outcome is „squeezed“ into the interval $$\hat{y} \in [0, 1]$$. See an example in R here: http://r-statistics.co/Beta-Regression-With-R.html
Ultimately, you need to check which approach works for you given your objectives and second order restrictions. It could (probably) also be okay to use a normal boosting approach (e.g. LightGBM or Catboost) - so without a beta link function. In this case some of the $$\hat{y}$$ could be $$>1$$ or $$<0$$. If you do not care too much about few "overshooting" predictions, you could also achieve good results with "normal" regression.