Regression

Linear Regression

Objective function

Ordinary least square Lagrangian function

Let leads to

With respect to different constraints,

  • for lasso,
  • for ridge.

Ridge Regression : L1 Regularization

Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator

  • When , no parameters are eliminated. The estimate is equal to the one found with linear regression.
  • As increases, more and more coefficients are set to zero and eliminated (theoretically, when , all coefficients are eliminated).
  • As increases, bias increases.
  • As decreases, variance increases.

Lasso Regression : L2 Regularization

Let leads to

Elastic net Regularization

Logistic Regression

For ,

Logistic function is inverse logit, sigmoid function defined as follows, for ,

Suppose linear with , i.e.

then