What is a L1 regularization?
A type of regularization that penalizes weights in proportion to the sum of the absolute value of the weights.
L1 regularization explained in plain English
A type of regularization that penalizes weights in proportion to the sum of the absolute value of the weights. L1 regularization helps drive the weights of irrelevant or barely relevant features to exactly 0. A feature with a weight of 0 is effectively removed from the model. Contrast with L2 regularization.
Example
Practitioners refer to l1 regularization when building, training, or evaluating machine learning systems. It appears in research papers, product documentation, and technical discussions about AI capabilities and limitations.
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