Feb. 15, 2022, 4:57 a.m. | Ritwick Roy

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How does regularization work and how can it be used to prevent overfitting?

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Content

  1. introduction
  2. A recap of linear regression

2.1 Regression with a simple dataset

3.0 Regularization

3.1 Ridge regularization

3.2 Lasso regularization

4.0 Ridge Vs Lasso regularization

4.1 Ridge and Lasso regularization as constraint minimization

4.2 Elastic-Net

5.0 A simple regularization example

6.0 Conclusion

7.0 References

1.0 Introduction:

Flexibility refers to the ability of a model to represent complex variations between the feature variables and …

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