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    Chapter Roadmap: Regression, Regularization and Gradient-Based Learning

    Chapter Journey

    1. Linear Least-Squares Regression

    The foundation. Minimizing the sum of squared residuals to find the best-fit line. Closed-form solution and its geometric interpretation.

    2. Ridge Regression and Regularization

    The problem with OLS: overfitting and ill-conditioned matrices. Introducing the L2 penalty to shrink weights. The bias-variance tradeoff.

    3. Gradient-Based Parameter Updates

    Moving beyond closed-form solutions. Batch, Stochastic, and Mini-batch Gradient Descent. Learning rates and convergence.

    By the end of this chapter, you will be able to analytically solve linear models, regularize them to prevent overfitting, and optimize them iteratively.

    The Core Idea of Ridge Regression

    The Intuition Behind Regularization

    Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) finds weights that minimize the training error. However, when data is noisy or features are highly correlated, OLS assigns excessively large weights to fit the noise. This leads to overfitting.

    Ridge Regression modifies the objective by adding a penalty term proportional to the square of the magnitude of the weights.

    • Goal: Minimize training error while keeping the weights as small as possible.
    • Effect: Shrinks the coefficients towards zero, reducing model complexity and variance.
    • Result: A model that generalizes much better to unseen data, even if it slightly underfits the training data.

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