Linear Regression, Kernel Trick, and Linear-Kernel.

Sometimes the kernel trick is useless.

Yoann Mocquin
Towards Data Science
8 min readNov 5, 2023

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In this post, I want to show an interesting result that was not obvious to me at first, which is the following:

Linear regression and linear-kernel ridge regression with no regularization are equivalent.

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