Courage to Learn ML: Demystifying L1 & L2 Regularization (part 2)

Unlocking the Intuition Behind L1 Sparsity with Lagrange multipliers

Amy Ma
Towards Data Science
6 min readNov 25, 2023

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Welcome back to ‘Courage to Learn ML: Demystifying L1 & L2 Regularization,’ Part Two. In our previous discussion, we explored the benefits of smaller coefficients and the means to attain them through weight penalization techniques. Now, in this follow-up, our mentor and learner will delve even deeper into the realm of L1 and L2 regularization.

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