Regularization Part 3: Elastic Net Regression

Elastic-Net Regression is combines Lasso Regression with Ridge Regression to give you the best of both worlds. It works well when there are lots of useless variables that need to be removed from the equation and it works well when there are lots of useful variables that need to be retained. And it does better than either one when it comes to handling correlated variables. Dang!!!!
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[@badoiuecristian]

Clarification: Params {slope, intercept}. Variable {weight, hight} - for anyone that got confused

[@statquest]

@@badoiuecristian Exactly.

[@s25412]

3:56 "...when there are correlations between parameters..." this should be between variables instead. Similarly at 4:48 "...job dealing with correlated parameters..."

[@statquest]

@@s25412 Oops! You are correct.

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Lasso: Yee-ha! Ridge: Brrr... Elastic Net: ...

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Thank you, Josh, for this excellent video on Elastic-Net Regression! It was a great finish to this 3-part series on Regularization!

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Thank you so much Josh!! I was struggling with Lasso, Ridge, and ElasticNet Regression for my graduate class. Your 3 videos cleared up all the confusion. Thank you SO much for all that you do to make these topics accessible for all!

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Glad you like the video! All of those topics are on the To-Do list, and hopefully I can get to them sooner than later. :)

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@@javiermenac Not yet, but I'm working on both. SVM will probably come first, followed by Neural Net.

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Really nice videos! It's very well explained and helpful! Can you also do videos on adaptive elastic net and multi-step elastic net ? Thank you so much!

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[@haneensuradi]

Thanks for this amazing series! It is making my life way easier while I am taking Machine Learning course in university. Can you please 'clearly explain' what do you mean by correlated variables? And what Elastic Net regression does to them?

[@statquest]

An example of correlated variables is if I wanted to use "weight" and "height" measurements to predict something. Since small people tend to weight less than tall people, weight and height are correlated. Elastic-Net Regression would shrink the parameters associated with those variables together.

[@sslxxbc4092]

Great video, thank you!! I'm just a bit unsure about the scaling of features. Say, if we scale a feature, what would change for lasso and ridge?

[@statquest]

Scaling the data will change the original least squares parameter estimates, but it will not change the process that Elastic-Net uses to reduce the influence of features that are less useful.

[@merrimac1]

Thank you for the tutorial. One thing I don't get is why Elastic Net can remove some variables. It has the component of Ridge regression, so a variable won't be removed all together. How come?

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[@Yzhang250]

Hi Josh, Just revisited this video and very clearly explained. But what are the disadvantages of elastic net? Is this model more computational expensive?

[@statquest]

As far as I know, it's pretty efficient.

[@heteromodal]

Hey Josh! Thank you for this, watched your 4 regularization videos today and am happy! And a suggestion for a related, followup video - collinearity & multi-collinearity :)

[@statquest]

Thanks! I'll keep those topics in mind.

[@heteromodal]

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[@harsharavi8989]

Hey Josh, I love your videos!! Lasso and elastic net regression also do work well when there are lesser data points compared to the variable, rite?

[@statquest]

Yes.

[@user-lt3wd5bd8g]

Thanks a lot for your amazing videos. I just wondering, when I use Elastic Net, the coefficient of useless variable seems will not go to zero because of the part of the Ridge Regression in the equation. So, why not just use Losso Regression first to eliminate the useless variable and then use the Ridge Regression to regularize?

[@statquest]

Interesting. You could try that. However, in theory, elastic net is supposed to do that for you. So there may be some aspect specific to your data that is giving you strange results.

[@jy2502]

Thank you for your wonderful videos. It really helped me to understand ridge/lasso/elastic net. I still have one question though, it seems like elastic net regression can delete some variables even though both lambda 1 and 2 are not 0 (I found it from other papers). but I am not sure how that is possible if lambda 2 is not 0..... do you have any idea for this? Thanks again!

[@statquest]

As long as the lasso penalty is in use, then you can eliminate variables.

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[@basavarajtm5018]

Hi Josh, Thank you for another awesome video. I have one qn, how to decide which parameters to group for lasso and ridge penalty for Elastic net regression?? are they selected randomly? thanks in advance

[@statquest]

Elastic-net takes care of all of that for you. See it in action here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/maXQf6Rte8yVrKs

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It doesn't gets more easier than this

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[@johannesgengenbach6701]

Thanks for all the Great Videos with decent musical intros! ;) I have a question concerning this one: You mention "lambdaX * variableX" but shouldn't it rather be "lambdaX * parameterX" (except the y intercept).

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You are exactly right.

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Thanks, I ended up googling that airspeed of a swallow thing and watching a Monty Python scene instead of learning how to do elastic net lol

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Looks like Elastic Net! :)

[@JMRG2992]

I want to know something. Minimum sample size for ridge and lasso is?. I have checked tons of papers, where some journals use at least 4, and others use 30, and others requires to estimate (like Greenes) for about 250 observatoins. Would this change with ridge and lasso regressions?

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Thanks!

[@RealSlimShady7]

I am in love with your videos Josh! BAM! I just wanted to ask when we have so many features and multicollinear variables (real case datasets), is applying Elastic Net Regression always better than Ridge and Lasso? I mean, we cannot actually check that as there are so many variables ( Your Deep Learning Example) so can we say that Elastic Net is best of both worlds? We can apply it in most of the scenarios where making a hypothesis about the features not very simple?

[@statquest]

I talk about this in my video that shows how to do Elastic Net regression in R. The answer is, "Yes, elastic-net gives you the best possible situation". See: kzbin.info/www/bejne/maXQf6Rte8yVrKs

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I think you are missing parenthesis in penalty terms 3:31. But thank you so much for the videos!

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[@statquest]

You're welcome! I'll add time-series to the to-do list. The more people that ask for it, the more I'll move it up the list. :)

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@@saikumartadi8494 Your vote has been noted and I bumped time series up on the list. :)

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[@nashaeshire6534]

Thanks a lot for your great videos. I don't understand why use Lasso reg or Ridge reg when we can use Elastic-Net reg? What is the draw back of Elastic Neg regression?

[@statquest]

None that I know of. However, not every ML method implements the full elastic net.

[@nashaeshire6534]

@@statquest Thanks! I don't get why you don't get more thumbs up... Great show, thanks again

[@carloszarzar]

Hi everyone. Could I consider the lambda as a hyperparameter in Ridge Regression and Lasso Regression?

[@statquest]

Yes

[@mohitkushwaha8974]

hi , u mentioned that best lambda1 and lambda 2 we can find by cross validation. for cross vaildation do we need to write a seperate code or it is done by elastic net by its own???

[@statquest]

It's done in the code. See: kzbin.info/www/bejne/maXQf6Rte8yVrKs

[@perrygogas]

Hey Josh another excellent video! I thank you very much! Quick question: Do you need brackets after the lambdas? ie λ1 Χ [variable1] + λ1 Χ [variable2] + ... or is it λ1 Χ { [variable1] + [variable2] + ... } ? and similarly for λ2 in ridge regression?

[@statquest]

The two ways you wrote out are equal to each other. So you can use one or the other, they are equivalent.

[@perrygogas]

@@statquest You 're right pff that was a mistake. I meant that you show this in 2:47: λ1 Χ [variable1] + ... + [variableX] And again with the squarred for Ridge. There must be a λ1 before the last bracket and λ2 for Ridge

[@statquest]

@@perrygogas Sorry! My notation is super sloppy here. There should be brackets around all of the variables. So it should be lambda1 * [ |v1| + |v2| + ...] + lambda2 * [ v1^2 + v2^2 + ...]

[@perrygogas]

@@statquest Great!!! thank you!!! you are the best!!!

[@user-rn5wd9hl8x]

Thanks so much for this video!! I have a quick question if I may. Didn't u mention in the last video that the lamda for ridge can be close to 0 but never equals 0? I was confused in the part where you say lamda 2 in the elastic-net regression can be 0 which makes it a lasso regression. Thank you in advance for your explanation. :)

[@statquest]

I think you confused lambda for the parameter estimates. With Ridge Regression, the parameter estimates can be close to 0, but not equal to 0. However, lambda can be any value >= 0, and the value is determined using cross-validation.

[@yc6768]

Thanks for the video Josh. Your explaination makes sense, but i can't wrap my head to think of a reason why would this work still. If we know some variables that are less important (e.g., Age in your previous example), don't we still have those variables that in the loss function? Is it just that their impact will be sitting in between none and when using L2?

[@statquest]

I'm not sure I understand your question. However, for less important variables, we can reduce their associated coefficients without drastically reducing the fit of the model to the data, and this will result in a significant reduction in the "penalty" that we add to the loss function.

[@reactorscience]

Sir your videos are amazing. I have a question though. In case of deep neural networks why make the model complex and then add regularization or dropout, isn't a better idea not to create the problem at the first place that is not make the model complex? And if the the model is overfitting, shouldn't trying to reduce the complexity of the model be the solution?

[@statquest]

Neural Networks are a little bit like black boxes and it's hard to know what they are doing - so it's hard to know if the model is "simple" or "complex". So, with NNs, regularization can just deal with the overfitting problem without you having to worry too much about the model.

[@tanphan3970]

Hello @Josh Starmer, Thank you for your videos, so easy to understand. But we are talking about Elastic_net (also Ridge/Lasso) technical in Regression model. So how about others model? They can apply to solve overfitting situation as Regression!

[@statquest]

Yes. Ridge, Lasso and Elastic net style penalties can be added to all kinds of models.

[@tanphan3970]

@@statquest all kinds of models with same formulars as Regression?

[@statquest]

@@tanphan3970 No, pretty much any formula will work. For example, regularization can be applied to Neural Networks, which are very different.

[@ashwinmanickam]

Hey Josh great video as usual ! I have a question for you, grateful if you can answer Let’s say I do a market mix modelling and I have closer to 250 variables and closer to 180 line items, which of these would be most suitable. Info about data A lot of these variables are super correlated, but I cannot afford to drop anyone off then since I need to present contribution of every channel to the business and they are naturally Co related since spending from business usually happens in clusters and are similar for similar channels like Facebook and Instagram. Any pointers on these will be very useful thanks!

[@statquest]

Try just using Ridge Regression and see how that works.

[@paulstevenconyngham7880]

hey man, might you be able to do a wee vid on z-score?

[@statquest]

Yep! I can do that fairly soon.

[@paulstevenconyngham7880]

@@statquest awesome Josh!

[@ruihanli7241]

Thanks for the clearly explanation, so since elastic regression is the best, should we just use elasitc regression every time instead of using lasso or ridge?

[@statquest]

Yes, because you can use Elastic Net to be pure Lasso or pure Ridge, and everything in between, so you can have it all.

[@gonchedanesh6731]

Thank you so much for this ! I just don't see when ridge can be better than lasso ?

[@statquest]

This is a good question. There are a few things that Ridge is better at than Lasso. Ridge tends to do better when there were more variables than data. And if there are high correlations in the data, then Ridge can do better than Lasso when there is more data than the number of variables. For more details, check out this website: www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~post/josh/LASSO_Ridge_Elastic_Net_-_Examples.html ...and check out the original Elastic-Net publication: web.stanford.edu/~hastie/Papers/B67.2%20%282005%29%20301-320%20Zou%20&%20Hastie.pdf

[@maskew]

Hi Josh, great video! There's just one thing that I'm confused about. I understand that Elastic-Net is meant to provide the best of both worlds out of Lasso and Ridge regression but I'm struggling to get my head around what this means. You said that "Elastic-Net regression - groups and shrinks the parameters associated with the correlated variables and leaves them in the equation or removes them all at once". What's the advantage to keeping all of the correlated variables in the equation? I thought that this was a bad thing to do since they are likely providing the same information to the model more than once. Also, does Lasso always keep a single variable of a correlated variable group, even if the group doesn't actually help at all to make predictions?

[@statquest]

This is a great question, and there may be more than one good answer. However, here's my take on it. In a pure "machine learning" setting, retaining correlated variables my not be very useful, but in a research setting, it is very useful. If you have thousands of variables, it my be very useful to see which groups of variables are correlated because that could give you insight into your data that you didn't have before. Does that make sense? And if a variable or a group of correlated variables are not useful, then the corresponding coefficients will shrink, all of them.

[@maskew]

@@statquest Thanks for the quick answer. I can understand why this would be useful in a research setting but surely the purpose of regularization is to find the best set of parameter values to model the function? By holding onto these variables, I can only see them having a negative effect on the optimality of the model

[@statquest]

​@@maskew So true! So I Iooked into this, and the answer is that correlated variables don't get in the way of predictions. They get in the way of trying to make sense of the effect of each variable on the prediction, but not in making the prediction itself. Said another way, if we used elastic-net regression and left a group of correlated variables in the model, we could conclude that they helped make good predictions, but we would not be able to make any conclusions about relationship between any one variable and the predicted response based on the coefficients. For more details, see point 5 on this page: newonlinecourses.science.psu.edu/stat501/node/346/

[@maskew]

@@statquest Right okay that makes sense then! Thanks a lot for getting back to me

[@vismitasai2521]

sir, i am confused the if regression analysis I did is correct or not?

[@JSS11]

Why do we not use parentheses after each lambda? I got confused as we did in the two earlier videos on regularization. Thanks for helping out!

[@statquest]

Oops. Looks like I forgot to add the parentheses. Sorry about the confusion that caused. :(

[@JSS11]

​@@statquest No worries! I thank you for your keeping my motivation level up there and getting back to me so quick.

[@innamemetova5923]

Sorry, mb its a bit silly, but.. Don't we need brackets after lambda1 for all absolute parameters and brackets after lambda2? 3:46 in the video

[@statquest]

Yes! You are correct. That was a slight omission. I hope it's not too confusion.

[@ankitbiswas8380]

So will Lasso remove the highly correlated ones in elastic net regression or will the combined effect of both lasso and ridge will just shrink the highly correlated features ? I am still unclear on that ? Who wins in terms of handling the correlated features ? Lsso or Ridge ?

[@statquest]

It depends on how you configure it. For more details, see: kzbin.info/www/bejne/maXQf6Rte8yVrKs

[@ilovetensor]

can you please justify that why you used mountain for ridge and loop for lasso? very curious to know, please tell

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:)

[@basmaal-ghali9174]

Thanks. But what if we want to estimate a variable from only one variable , does using elastic net regression improve the results? I already used Ols , r_aquared =0.65 with rms=0.04. How to improve the model?

[@statquest]

For details on the pros/cons of elastic vs ridge vs lasso, see: kzbin.info/www/bejne/maXQf6Rte8yVrKs

[@Sorararawr]

Hi, doesn't the separate lambda values for each of the penalties make this a LAVA regression rather than an elastic net regression? Just curious.

[@statquest]

No. The big difference between elastic-net and LAVA is that LAVA splits the parameteres into two separate groups. LAVA regression then applies the lasso penalty to only one group of parameters and applies the ridge penalty to other group of parameters. For details, see: bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-021-04436-6

[@MohamedIbrahim-qk3tk]

Lasso does the job of shrinking the coefficients AND removing the useless parameters right?

[@statquest]

In this video I show the roles that both Ridge and Lasso play in Elastic Net: kzbin.info/www/bejne/maXQf6Rte8yVrKs

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[@user-bc9lq3mv5e]

I have a question... I don't know what is the advantage of ridge regression. Ridge doesn't eliminate the trivial variables but lasso does. Then why we have to combinate them? I thought that ridge has a computational advantage because it doesn't use 'abstract'. But when we put them in together, so we use elastic-net algorithm, that advantage will disappear. Why we have to use elastic-net, not lasso? What is the advantage of keeping ridge's penalty term?

[@statquest]

This is a good question. It turns out that there are some technical issues with Lasso. To quote from the documentation: "It is known that the ridge penalty shrinks the coefficients of correlated predictors towards each other while the lasso tends to pick one of them and discard the others. The elastic-net penalty mixes these two; if predictors are correlated in groups, an α=0.5 tends to select the groups in or out together." You can read more here: web.stanford.edu/~hastie/glmnet/glmnet_alpha.html

[@user-bc9lq3mv5e]

@@statquest wow, thank you very much!

[@weiqingwang1202]

Why would elastic net remove the parameters of correlated variables altogether or keep them and shrink them? I thought it’s a little bit of both.