Paper ID: 2006.00371

Ridge Regularization: an Essential Concept in Data Science

Trevor Hastie

Ridge or more formally $\ell_2$ regularization shows up in many areas of statistics and machine learning. It is one of those essential devices that any good data scientist needs to master for their craft. In this brief ridge fest I have collected together some of the magic and beauty of ridge that my colleagues and I have encountered over the past 40 years in applied statistics.

Submitted: May 30, 2020