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Why do increasing regularization weights make objective function not monotonically decrease?

I run modified non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) and tune the regularization weight from 1e5 to 1e13.

The table below shows errors from calculating cost function for 25 iterations of all weights.

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At weight 1e4, the objective function is monotonically decreased. But when I increase the weight more and more, the error goes down and gradually up. What is happened here? By the way, I think I got the best result is at weight 5e10 where the error is not monotonically decreased. In this case, which weight I should choose?

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