[Scikit-learn-general] maximum and minimum regularization for NMF

2016-02-02 Thread James Jensen
For ElasticNetCV, inside the function _alpha_grid() it computes the maximum regularization strength alpha, with a given dataset X, target Y, and L1 ratio, for which there will be at least one nonzero coefficient. I'm wondering if/how the same could be computed for sklearn's L1/L2-regularized NMF.

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] maximum and minimum regularization for NMF

2016-02-02 Thread Vlad Niculae
Hi James, I'm not sure how useful a minimum alpha would be. Even if no weights are shrunk quite to zero, the regularization can still impact performance metrics. I would be curious what application you have in mind for this. The max alpha question is interesting, I am curious as well. (Sorry my