From definition 1 of [Meinshausen(2007)][1], there are two parameters controlling the solution of the relaxed Lasso.<br/> The first one, $\lambda$, controls the variable selection, whereas the second, $\phi$, controls the shrinkage level, when $\phi= 1$ both Lasso and relaxed-Lasso are the same, and for $\phi<1$ you obtain a solution with variable closer to what would give an orthogonal projection on the selected variables (kind of soft debiasing). This formulation actually corresponds to solve two problems: 1. First the full Lasso with penalization parameter $\lambda$ 2. Second the Lasso on $X_S$, which is $X$ reduced to variables selected by 1, with a penalization parameter $\lambda\phi$. Hope this will help. [1]: http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~meinshau/relaxo.pdf