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## Hot answers tagged regularization

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### Why does adding a dropout layer improve deep/machine learning performance, given that dropout suppresses some neurons from the model?

The function of dropout is to increase the robustness of the model and also to remove any simple dependencies between the neurons. Neurons are only removed for a single pass forward and backward ...
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### When should one use L1, L2 regularization instead of dropout layer, given that both serve same purpose of reducing overfitting?

I am unsure there will be a formal way to show which is best in which situations - simply trying out different combinations is likely best! It is worth noting that Dropout actually does a little bit ...
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### L1 & L2 Regularization in Light GBM

First, note that in logistic regression, using both an L1 and an L2 penalty is common enough to have its own name: ElasticNet. (Perhaps see https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/184029/232706 .) So ...
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### Regularization in simple math explained

The function you have described is a loss function. It is the function which we want to minimize in order to train our model. The loss function is called ordinary least squares. We can also see that ...
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### Why using L1 regularization over L2?

Basically, we add a regularization term in order to prevent the coefficients to fit so perfectly to overfit. The difference between L1 and L2 is L1 is the sum of weights and L2 is just the sum of the ...
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### Choosing regularization method in neural networks

There are not any strong, well-documented principles to help you decide between types of regularisation in neural networks. You can even combine regularisation techniques, you don't have to choose ...
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### Regularization practice with ANNs

activity_regularizer are used to control the output of a neural network. They tend to make the output smaller. Suppose the loss function is give as : ...
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### Dropout vs weight decay

These techniques are not mutually exclusive; combining dropout with weight decay has become pretty standard for deep learning. However, where weight decay applies a linear penalty, dropout can cause ...
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### difference in l1 and l2 regularization

That is generally not true, to be more accurate we can say that L1 promotes sparsity. if a weight is larger than 1 then L2 cares more about it than L1 while if a weight is less than 1 then L1 cares ...
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### Why does dropout ruin my accuracy in CNN?

As your network is working without dropout, I think your problem is about how many epoches you run. In your code, it seems that only one epoch will be run. With dropout enabled, each neuron has 50% ...
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### Understanding XG Boost Training (Multi class classification)

What can I understand/interpret from the training & test loss graph? This checking out the quality of the model. If the train and test set loss decreasing according to the number of epoch in the ...
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### What's the best way to tune the regularization parameter in neural nets

Wikipedia lists some well-known approaches to hyper-parameter searches. The brute-force scan/search, or a grid search across multiple parameters, is still a very common and workable approach. As is ...
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### Should I use regularization every time?

Normally you use regularization. The exception is if you know the data generating process and can model it exactly. Then you merely estimate the model parameters. In general you will not know the ...
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### On simple 1D dataset, LogisticRegressionCV selects terrible hyperparameters, resulting scores are nonsensical

First I did a visualization of what your code is doing (see code at the bottom) The model seems completely fine. The coefficient of the linear regression is close to 0, where it should be given how ...
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### How to handle Overfitting

This is a very general question, however, there are many different solutions as explained below. For your case, probably, item 2 is not the case because you can not gather a large number of data ...
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### Using L1 penalty in XGBoost

L2 and L1 regularization are controlled via the lambda (=reg_lambda) and alpha (=reg_alpha) parameter respectively. Higher ...
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### Understanding regularization

That's correct. Without regularization your model would fit to an irrelevant noise present in your dataset. It means that training set will fit better but the overall predictive power will decrease. ...
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### L1 & L2 Regularization in Light GBM

In this medium post, you can find a concise and very clear explanation regarding these parameters https://medium.com/@gabrieltseng/gradient-boosting-and-xgboost-c306c1bcfaf5 Gabriel Tseng, Author of ...

### Why use regularization instead of decreasing the model

Regularization does decrease the capacity of the model in some sense, but as you already guessed, different capacity reductions result in models of different quality and are not interchangeable. L1 ...
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### Can ridge regression be used for feature selection?

Unlike lasso, ridge does not have zeroing coefficients as a goal, and you shouldn't expect applying ridge penalty to have this effect. So the answer to your title question is "no." However, in your ...
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### Understanding XG Boost Training (Multi class classification)

Assuming your x axis is nrounds(Or ntrees) parameter, XGB is an ensemble of many many trees built on top of one another. Your XAxis indicates how many trees have been used. Consider 2 points at x = ...
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### Should you turn off label smoothing when validating?

The way most people gain an initial understanding of label smoothing (and what most common explanations have to say on the subject) plays a great role in how one would approach this question. At first ...
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### When I add regularization like L1,L2 , do I need more epochs to properly train my model?

The convergence time is sensitive to the data you have and a random seed. Specifically, the convergence time is linear in expectation in all three cases. ...
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### Visualizing effect of regularization for linear regression problem

Your understanding of regularization is completely correct, it just seems that the value for alpha you are using is too low for this example to have any meaningful impact. Increasing the value for ...
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### Understanding regularization

Yes, that is correct. For example, think of a polynomial $a_n x^n + a_{n-1} x^{n-1} + \dots + a_2 x^2 + a_1 x^1 + a_0 x^0$ which should fit 100 data points $(x_, y_i)$ where all $y_i$ were generated ...
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### Should I use regularization every time?

Adding a few more specifics to the previous two responses which both contain useful insight and perspective: Regularization is used to control overfitting (more ...
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### Which regularizer to use to get a sparse set of regression parameters?

The most common sparse regularizer is sum of absolute values (so-called Lasso regression). With carefully chosen penalty coefficient, it makes some of less useful parameters exactly zero. Cardinality ...
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### Is LASSO regression implemented in Statsmodels?

The question-asker resorted to scikit-learn until now, but statsmodels has just come out with its implementation of Lasso regression. The docs here are pretty self-explanatory and concise.
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