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Sudipta Mukherjee
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Sudipta Mukherjee was born in Kolkata and migrated to Bangalore. He is an electronics engineer by education and a computer engineer/scientist by profession and passion. He graduated in 2004 with a degree in electronics and communication engineering. He has a keen interest in data structure, algorithms, text processing, natural language processing tools development, programming languages, and machine learning at large. His first book on Data Structure using C has been received quite well. Parts of the book can be read on Google Books. The book was also translated into simplified Chinese, available from Amazon.cn. This is Sudipta's second book with Packt Publishing. His first book, .NET 4.0 Generics , was also received very well. During the last few years, he has been hooked to the functional programming style. His book on functional programming, Thinking in LINQ, was released in 2014. He lives in Bangalore with his wife and son. Sudipta can be reached via e-mail at sudipto80@yahoo.com and via Twitter at @samthecoder.
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Ridge regression


Ridge regression is a technique to block the cases where X'X becomes singular. I is an identity matrix where all the elements in the diagonal are 1 and all the other elements are zero. is a user-defined scalar value and it is used to minimize the prediction error.

The following code snippet uses the house price example to find the theta using ridge regression model:

The price is a vector holding the price of all the houses.

  • is known as the Shrinkage Parameter
  • controls the size of the coefficients of theta
  • controls the amount of regularization

To obtain the value of , you have to break the training data into several sets and run the algorithm several times with several values of , and then find the one that is most sensible and reduces error the most. There are some techniques to find the value of using SVD but it's not proven to work all the time.

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Sudipta Mukherjee was born in Kolkata and migrated to Bangalore. He is an electronics engineer by education and a computer engineer/scientist by profession and passion. He graduated in 2004 with a degree in electronics and communication engineering. He has a keen interest in data structure, algorithms, text processing, natural language processing tools development, programming languages, and machine learning at large. His first book on Data Structure using C has been received quite well. Parts of the book can be read on Google Books. The book was also translated into simplified Chinese, available from Amazon.cn. This is Sudipta's second book with Packt Publishing. His first book, .NET 4.0 Generics , was also received very well. During the last few years, he has been hooked to the functional programming style. His book on functional programming, Thinking in LINQ, was released in 2014. He lives in Bangalore with his wife and son. Sudipta can be reached via e-mail at sudipto80@yahoo.com and via Twitter at @samthecoder.
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