Lasso and Elastic Net for Sparse Signals

Estimates Lasso and Elastic-Net regression models on a manually generated sparse signal corrupted with an additive noise. Estimated coefficients are compared with the ground-truth.

print(__doc__)

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from sklearn.metrics import r2_score

generate some sparse data to play with

np.random.seed(42)

n_samples, n_features = 50, 200
X = np.random.randn(n_samples, n_features)
coef = 3 * np.random.randn(n_features)
inds = np.arange(n_features)
np.random.shuffle(inds)
coef[inds[10:]] = 0  # sparsify coef
y = np.dot(X, coef)

# add noise
y += 0.01 * np.random.normal((n_samples,))

# Split data in train set and test set
n_samples = X.shape[0]
X_train, y_train = X[:n_samples // 2], y[:n_samples // 2]
X_test, y_test = X[n_samples // 2:], y[n_samples // 2:]

Lasso

from sklearn.linear_model import Lasso

alpha = 0.1
lasso = Lasso(alpha=alpha)

y_pred_lasso = lasso.fit(X_train, y_train).predict(X_test)
r2_score_lasso = r2_score(y_test, y_pred_lasso)
print(lasso)
print("r^2 on test data : %f" % r2_score_lasso)

Out:

  Lasso(alpha=0.1, copy_X=True, fit_intercept=True, max_iter=1000,
   normalize=False, positive=False, precompute=False, random_state=None,
   selection='cyclic', tol=0.0001, warm_start=False)
r^2 on test data : 0.384710

ElasticNet

from sklearn.linear_model import ElasticNet

enet = ElasticNet(alpha=alpha, l1_ratio=0.7)

y_pred_enet = enet.fit(X_train, y_train).predict(X_test)
r2_score_enet = r2_score(y_test, y_pred_enet)
print(enet)
print("r^2 on test data : %f" % r2_score_enet)

plt.plot(enet.coef_, color='lightgreen', linewidth=2,
         label='Elastic net coefficients')
plt.plot(lasso.coef_, color='gold', linewidth=2,
         label='Lasso coefficients')
plt.plot(coef, '--', color='navy', label='original coefficients')
plt.legend(loc='best')
plt.title("Lasso R^2: %f, Elastic Net R^2: %f"
          % (r2_score_lasso, r2_score_enet))
plt.show()

Out:

  ElasticNet(alpha=0.1, copy_X=True, fit_intercept=True, l1_ratio=0.7,
      max_iter=1000, normalize=False, positive=False, precompute=False,
      random_state=None, selection='cyclic', tol=0.0001, warm_start=False)
r^2 on test data : 0.240176

Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 0.202 seconds)

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