Questions tagged [elastic-net]
A regularization method for regression models that combines the penalties of lasso and of ridge regression.
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In elastic net regularisation, will dividing the OLS term the number of observations cause misleading results when cross-validating?
Two formulations of the elastic net regression function
Consider sklearn's implementation of elastic net regularisation (Wikipedia link). From the docs, it works by ...
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Number of samples in scikit-Learn cost function for Ridge/Lasso regression
I am using scikit-learn to train some regression models on data and noticed that the cost function for Lasso Regression is defined like this:
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whereas the cost function for e.g. Ridge Regression is ...
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Comparing an elastic net model with a nested linear regression
Suppose I have a linear model $y_i=\mathbf{x}_i\boldsymbol{\beta}+\mathbf{z}_i\boldsymbol{\gamma}+\epsilon_i$, where $\boldsymbol{\gamma}$ is subject to elastic net regularization. Now I have a nested ...
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How to understand regularised linear models
I'm working on a project using elastic nets for predicting a continuous variable using multiple attributes. I'm struggling to understand some of the underlying theory behind what I'm doing.
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Multiple Imputation for Predictors Only, Excluding Missing Outcome Data
I am working with a dataset containing ~300 predictors and ~3000 observations and building a predictive model using elastic net (and hoping to generalize to an external validation set). While the ...
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Bayesian priors associated with regularization penalties
I gather that adding a penalty term to (linear) least squares minimization typically corresponds with choosing some prior for Bayes estimation in the normal linear regression model. A couple questions ...
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how do I perform permutation testinging for a prediction model developed within caret package (R)?
I'm fairly new to data science/StackExchange, so please excuse any faux pas
I'm trying to perform permutation testing for a chosen ML algorithm (an elastic-net logistic regression) to derive a p-value....
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Combining bootstrapping and cross validation for predicting sensitivity to drugs in Barretina et al., 2012
Also posted on https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/combining-bootstrapping-and-cross-validation-for-predicting-sensitivity-to-drugs-in-barretina-et-al-2012/5093.
Was curious for any additional inputs/...
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Choosing single lambda and alpha for prediction on independent dataset (Elastic Net)
I have two separate datasets, one of which I am using for training and testing, and the other I am keeping as an independent dataset. My goal is to ultimately train an optimal regression model with ...
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Is there a way to write Elastic Net in expanded matrix form?
I am working through a regression problem for a matrix of data that isn't full rank and has more features than observations. For these reasons, I'd like to use elastic net because of its $L1$ and $L2$ ...
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How do I find the optimal values for $\beta$ and $\beta_0$ for sparse linear regression model? Where does the mean of $\lambda$ come into account? [closed]
If someone could point me in the right direction that would be greatly appreciated!
Consider the sparse linear regression model:
$\min_{\beta_{0},\beta} \left \{ \frac{1}{2}\left \| \beta _{0}e + X\...
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Why are my elastic net and lasso r-squared measures negative?
I'm using sklearn.linear_model.Lasso and sklearn.linear_model.ElasticNet on a model that includes a constant.
I don't expect a model with a constant to perform worse than the average of the data, ie ...
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Math behind applying elastic net penalties to logistic regression
I understand how Ridge / Lasso / Elastic Net regression penalties are applied to the linear regression's cost function, but I am trying to figure out how they are applied to Logistic Regression's ...
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Solving coefficient sum constrained elastic net with quadratic objective term
I am looking for an algorithm to solve an equality constrained elastic net.
There are two adaptations I need to make to the standard elastic net. First the objective function includes a quadratic ...
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Resources for lasso regression and elastic net
I am interested in learning more about lasso regression and elastic net, can someone provide links that they felt helpful? If there are books that have a step-to-step guide on how to conduct these ...
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Minimizing an elastic net loss function
Reading through Andrew Ng's cs229 notes he shows here on page 10 how you can minimize a loss function $J\left( \theta \right)$ representing the sum of least squares by taking the gradient with respect ...
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lambda scaling in elastic net regression with glmnet vs sklearn
I am trying to get results to agree between glmnet and sklearn elastic net regression for a specific case where I can't normalise the response variable y. I know that for ridge regression (alpha = 0) ...
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Shrinkage regression (Elastic net) produces worse fit on same data when providing more variables compared to previous fit?
I am currently fitting elastic net models on 45 data points (I know, it's not much) in the context of time series analysis. For context, I want to build a forecast model that forecasts 3 months into ...
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How can I go from Elastic Net Loss to Scikit-Learn Elastic Net?
I couldn't find a better title, but here's the thing...
I was studying Elastic Net regularization and I found this function:
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\text{Loss} = \sum_{i=0}^n \left(y_i - (wx_i + c)\right)^2 + \lambda_1 \...
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elastic net regression excluding few of the factor levels
am very much new to data science and still trying to understand elastic net regression.
I have tried using elastic net in R using the code below. my data set is simple and it is for predicting prices ...
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Bivariate analyses vs. Boruta/random forest for removing irrelevant variables prior to penalized regression
I will be using a penalized logistic regression (elastic net) to select variables and their relative importance for predicting an outcome. The goal is to eventually create a risk prediction model, not ...
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How/whether to tune Elastic Net parameters using concentration of risk?
Typically, I see alpha and lambda tuned in elastic net models to minimize cross-validated error. Yet, I have seen a handful of articles by one set of authors where they instead tuned parameters to ...
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Interpretation of Elastic net having too low or high value of alpha
Often I found the situation that the elastic model what I fitted has optimal alpha value at 0 or 1. Or not only that situation, but also there some alphas go near to 0 or 1.(ex. 0.1 or 0.9)
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How to find out hazard ratio and confidence interval from LASSO cox regression ans plot momogram in R?
I am working on a prognostic model based on time to event endpoint. The training data consists of 800 participants and test data around 400. The number of variables is 21. I was using glmnet package.
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Which elastic net to use in Python [closed]
I need to apply the findings of the Zhou, Hastings Paper in Python. Therefore I wanted to use the sklearn elasticnetCV. But is it the same as the elastic net estimate or the naive elastic net estimate?...
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Variables that best discriminate groups based on the glmnet package
I am trying to understand how to interpret the result from the glmnet package. What I ultimately want to find is a set of (influential or important) variables that best discriminates three groups (e.g....
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How to Improve an Elastic Net Model?
I have a dataset with $n=1500$ observations and $p=2700$ variables.
I fitted an Elastic Net model with $\alpha=0.4$ and $\lambda=0.1$
I chose the $\lambda$ with cross validation, and the $\alpha$ ...
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When to use ridge regression or lasso rather than elastic net?
If one has no ex-ante information about what the L1-ratio hyperparameter should be in the context of elastic net regularization, when should one instead use lasso or ridge? This ratio is referred to ...
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Naive-elastic net and elastic net variable selection comparison
The elastic net paper (here) introduced the naive-elastic net and elastic net. The coefficient estimates of naive-elastic net are obtained by solving the problem
$$\hat\beta_{naive-enet}=\text{argmin}...
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Hyperparameter estimation on gaussian regression using elastic net
I have been tasked with explaining how a set of 50 environmental variables can affect 300 plus measures of anatomical regions. I am thinking of using gaussian regression as it can handle multiple ...
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Including Fixed Effects in a LASSO/Elastic Net regression model (in R)
So this is a question has vaguely been asked before (see 1 and 2) but I have not been able to find a conclusive answer for anywhere.
Essentially I have panel data for 300 US firms between 2012-2020 ...
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Is there any example of 2-step predictive model?(i.e. classification model coupled with regression models for each subclass)
I have a large dataset with 10,000+ individuals and many many biological features (>5000). And I want to use these features to build a linear model (e.g. elastic net) to predict their clinical ...
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Can I run glm after MI with Elastic-Net non-zeroed coefficients from 'miselect'?
I have data with n = 80 and 10 predictors, and ran MI using MICE, followed by Variable Selection for Multiply Imputed Data using ‘miselect’ and finally have 4 non-zeroed coefficients.
Since ...
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Would a log transformation on my features change the elastic net result
We built the elastic net model on a set of my features and control features.
With that, we did various experiments to discuss the importance of the selected features.
For example, we showed more of my ...
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How is the standard error calculated for the `lambda.1se` output in the cv.glmnet function?
I understand that lambda.1se is the largest lambda that gives MSE within one standard error of the minimum MSE. But how is the standard error calculated exactly.
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All p-values rendered non-significant in Cox model after initializing coefficients from glmnet
I have a set of 200 genes that are split into numerical high and low, encoded as (1/2).
I have set this variable this way for linearity of the model. Also, stratified by cancer and normal cases.
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Elastic net regression: Should I tune for lambda at the same time as alpha with cv.glmnet?
I am looking for the best $\alpha$ (=ratio between L1 and L2 penalty) and $\lambda$ (=penalty strength) for my elastic net regression model, using the R package ...
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Elastic Net / Lasso as a solution to multiple comparisons and p-hacking? Inferential/Descriptive stats
I have a very large dataset, and I'm trying to find which variable(s) may describe the truth about a certain variable. I've considered just doing OLS on variables that make logical sense. But I've ...
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Multicollinearity and case:predictor ratio problems
I have 444 cases and 60ish predictors that suffer from collinearity. The predictors fall into three categories (vol, thickness and demographics). I would prefer to subdivide my cases into 4 (age) ...
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What is the effect of PCA on the Error?
I am fitting an ElasticNet model using an array of values for alpha and l1_ratio.
I then plot the result of the negative root mean squared error from cross validation in a heatmap, which gives me the ...
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How should I interpret the case where elasticnet gives zero features
I am using elasticnet for the purpose of determining feature importance. In case it is relevant, this is a high-dimensionality model with $n\ll p$.
I have seen cases before where Lasso, i.e. logistic ...
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Is the use of elastic net for variable selection purposes a form of data dredging?
Is the use of elastic net for variable selection purposes a form of data dredging? I switched from using stepwise regression procedure for variable selection to elastic net, but I actually do not know ...
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The cumulative probability model with ordinalNet, using an elastic net penalty: more coefficients than expected equal to zero
I am trying to fit a cumulative probability model (ordinal logistic regression with 17 categories and 827 observations) with elastic net penalty using the ordinalNet...
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What to report in cross validated elastic net regression?
Let's assume I want to construct a regression model to predict a specific outcome variable but I don't have enough data to do a proper train-test set split (n = 200). I have 7 predictor variables (...
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Counterintuitive coefficients in elastic net logistic regression
In a model run of elastic net logistic regression, I encountered a very counterintuitive coefficient. I have looked into the data, model and script, but, I still cannot seem to wrap my head around the ...
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What really is 'glmnet' when used in caret in R for binary classification?
like lasso and ridge, elastic net can also be used for classification
by using the deviance instead of the residual sum of squares. This
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Strong rules for the elastic net
In their paper (here), Tibshirani et al defined the lasso as the solution
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\text{argmin}_{\boldsymbol{\beta}}\frac{1}{2}\left\Vert \mathbf{y}-\mathbf{X}\boldsymbol{\beta}\right\Vert ^{2}+\lambda\...
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Is it correct to evaluate individual drivers with the AUC value?
I have a discussion with my supervisor about the usage of AUC to determine, basically, the importance of three different drivers consisting of multiple variables each. He claims I can look into the ...
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Correlated predictors with different signs in elastic net
I am struggling with the interpretation of my elastic net results and hope someone might be able to help ...
I've done an elastic net regression in R (based on glmnet), with different levels of alpha ...
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How do I compare cv.glmnet models with AIC?
I am using the glmnet package in R, and not(!) the caret package for my binary ElasticNet regression. I have come to the point ...
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