Choosing a neural network for your use case

Multilayer Perceptrons

Use MLPs For:

• Tabular datasets
• Classification prediction problems
• Regression prediction problems

Try MLPs On:

• Image data
• Text Data
• Time series data
• Other types of data

Convolutional Neural Networks

Use CNNs For:

• Image data
• Classification prediction problems
• Regression prediction problems

Try CNNs On:

• Text data
• Time series data
• Sequence input data

Recurrent Neural Networks

Use RNNs For:

• Text data
• Speech data
• Classification prediction problems
• Regression prediction problems
• Generative models

Don’t Use RNNs For:

• Tabular data
• Image data

Perhaps Try RNNs on:

• Time series data

Source: When to Use MLP, CNN, and RNN Neural Networks