Intro to Machine Learning
Lecture 2: Linear regression and regularization
Shen Shen
Feb 9, 2024
(many slides adapted from Tamara Broderick)
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How do Lectures fit in the course components/line up?
Optimization + first-principle physics
5min primer to an optimization problem
using OLS
Outline
- Recap of last (content) week.
- Ordinary least-square regression
- Analytical solution (when exists)
- Cases when analytical solutions don't exist
- Practically, visually, mathamtically
- Regularization
- Hyperparameter, cross-validation
Outline
- Recap of last (content) week.
- Ordinary least-square regression
- Analytical solution (when exists)
- Cases when analytical solutions don't exist
- Practically, visually, mathemtically
- Regularization
- Hyper-parameter, cross-validation
\theta^*=\left(\tilde{X}^{\top} \tilde{X}\right)^{-1} \tilde{X}^{\top} \tilde{Y}
- When \(\theta^*\) exists, guaranteed to be unique minimizer of
\theta^*=\left(\tilde{X}^{\top} \tilde{X}\right)^{-1} \tilde{X}^{\top} \tilde{Y}
\theta^*=\left(\tilde{X}^{\top} \tilde{X}\right)^{-1} \tilde{X}^{\top} \tilde{Y}
Now, the catch:
may not be well-defined
- \(\theta^*=\left(\tilde{X}^{\top} \tilde{X}\right)^{-1} \tilde{X}^{\top} \tilde{Y}\) is not well-defined if \(\left(\tilde{X}^{\top} \tilde{X}\right)\) is not invertible
- Indeed, it's possible that\(\left(\tilde{X}^{\top} \tilde{X}\right)\) is not invertible.
- In particular,\(\left(\tilde{X}^{\top} \tilde{X}\right)\) is not invertible if and only if \(\tilde{X}\) is not full column rank
\theta^*=\left(\tilde{X}^{\top} \tilde{X}\right)^{-1} \tilde{X}^{\top} \tilde{Y}
Now, the catch:
is not well-defined
if \(\tilde{X}\) is not full column rank
- if \(n\)<\(d\)
- if columns (features) in \( \tilde{X} \) have linear dependency
Recall
indeed \(\tilde{X}\) is not full column rank
\theta^*=\left(\tilde{X}^{\top} \tilde{X}\right)^{-1} \tilde{X}^{\top} \tilde{Y}
Recap:
- if \(n\)<\(d\) (i.e. not enough data)
- if columns (features) in \( \tilde{X} \) have linear dependency (i.e., so-called co-linearity)
- Both cases do happen in practice
- In both cases, loss function is a "half-pipe"
- In both cases, infinitily-many optimal hypotheses
- Side-note: sometimes noise can resolve invertabiliy issue, but undesirable
is not defined
Outline
- Recap of last (content) week.
- Ordinary least-square regression
- Analytical solution (when exists)
- Cases when analytical solutions don't exist
- Practically, visually, mathemtically
- Regularization
- Hyper-parameter, cross-validation
Regularization
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Ridge Regression Regularization
Ridge Regression Regularization
Ridge Regression Regularization
\(\lambda\) is a hyper-parameter
Outline
- Recap of last (content) week.
- Ordinary least-square regression
- Analytical solution (when exists)
- Cases when analytical solutions don't exist
- Practically, visually, mathemtically
- Regularization
- Hyper-parameter, cross-validation
Cross-validation
Cross-validation
Cross-validation
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Cross-validation
Cross-validation
Cross-validation
Cross-validation
Cross-validation
Comments about cross-validation
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good idea to shuffle data first
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a way to "reuse" data
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not evaluating a hypothesis, but rather
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evaluating learning algorithm. (e.g. hypothesis class, hyper-parameter)
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Could e.g. have an outer loop for picking good hyper-parameter/class
Summary
- One strategy for finding ML algorithms is to reduce the ML problem to an optimization problem.
- For the ordinary least squares (OLS), we can find the optimizer analytically, using basic calculus! Take the gradient and set it to zero. (Generally need more than gradient info; suffices in OLS)
- Two ways to approach the calculus problem: write out in terms of explicit sums or keep in vector-matrix form. Vector-matrix form is easier to manage as things get complicated (and they will!) There are some good discussions in the lecture notes.
Summary
- What does it mean to well posed.
- When there are many possible solutions, we need to indicate our preference somehow.
- Regularization is a way to construct a new optimization problem
- Least-squares regularization leads to the ridge-regression formulation. Good news: we can still solve it analytically!
- Hyper-parameters and how to pick them. Cross-validation
Thanks!
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