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A regularization method for regression models that shrinks coefficients towards zero, making some of them equal to zero. Thus lasso performs feature selection.

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L1-regularization enforces sparsity for convex functions

Regarding your question about general convex functions, you will get a sparse solution given that you apply a sparsity-inducing norm (which l1 is one such norm). For further information, read up to se …
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Report coefficients in elastic net regression after cross validation

Regarding your question about post-selection confidence intervals for the LASSO look for a paper by Tibshirani et al. titled "Exact Post-Selection Inference for Sequential Regression Procedures". …
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Preparation for modeling: how to deal with a huge number of variables

I read here that some people suggested LASSO or PCA. … It might be that x_1 alone gets dropped out by LASSO, but there is important information at the intersection between x_1 and x_2 that I miss. …
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Why Ridge regularization has the grouping effect [duplicate]

I want to use elastic net (lasso + ridge) method for feature selection process. I can't understand why does the ridge method gives me the grouping effect for correlated variables. …
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