  Deep learning methods are useful for high-dimensional data and are becoming
widely used in many areas of software engineering. Deep learners utilizes
extensive computational power and can take a long time to train-- making it
difficult to widely validate and repeat and improve their results. Further,
they are not the best solution in all domains. For example, recent results show
that for finding related Stack Overflow posts, a tuned SVM performs similarly
to a deep learner, but is significantly faster to train. This paper extends
that recent result by clustering the dataset, then tuning very learners within
each cluster. This approach is over 500 times faster than deep learning (and
over 900 times faster if we use all the cores on a standard laptop computer).
Significantly, this faster approach generates classifiers nearly as good
(within 2\% F1 Score) as the much slower deep learning method. Hence we
recommend this faster methods since it is much easier to reproduce and utilizes
far fewer CPU resources. More generally, we recommend that before researchers
release research results, that they compare their supposedly sophisticated
methods against simpler alternatives (e.g applying simpler learners to build
local models).
