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Asked by: Maiol Lurje
technology and computing artificial intelligenceWhat is regularized linear regression?
Also asked, what is lambda in linear regression?
When we have a high degree linear polynomial that is used to fit a set of points in a linear regression setup, to prevent overfitting, we use regularization, and we include a lambda parameter in the cost function. This lambda is then used to update the theta parameters in the gradient descent algorithm.
Also to know, why do we need to regularize in regression?
The goal of regularization is to avoid overfitting, in other words we are trying to avoid models that fit extremely well to the training data (data used to build the model), but fit poorly to testing data (data used to test how good the model is). This is known as overfitting.
In mathematics, statistics, and computer science, particularly in machine learning and inverse problems, regularization is the process of adding information in order to solve an ill-posed problem or to prevent overfitting. Regularization applies to objective functions in ill-posed optimization problems.