admm.enet: Elastic Net Regularization

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Elastic Net Regularization

Description

Elastic Net regularization is a combination of \ell_2 stability and \ell_1 sparsity constraint simulatenously solving the following,

\textrm{min}_x ~ \frac{1}{2}\|Ax-b\|_2^2 + \lambda_1 \|x\|_1 + \lambda_2 \|x\|_2^2

with nonnegative constraints \lambda_1 and \lambda_2. Note that if both lambda values are 0, it reduces to least-squares solution.

Usage

admm.enet(
  A,
  b,
  lambda1 = 1,
  lambda2 = 1,
  rho = 1,
  abstol = 1e-04,
  reltol = 0.01,
  maxiter = 1000
)

Arguments

A	an (m\times n) regressor matrix
b	a length-m response vector
lambda1	a regularization parameter for \ell_1 term
lambda2	a regularization parameter for \ell_2 term
rho	an augmented Lagrangian parameter
abstol	absolute tolerance stopping criterion
reltol	relative tolerance stopping criterion
maxiter	maximum number of iterations

Value

a named list containing

x

a length-n solution vector

history

dataframe recording iteration numerics. See the section for more details.

Iteration History

When you run the algorithm, output returns not only the solution, but also the iteration history recording following fields over iterates,

objval

object (cost) function value

r_norm

norm of primal residual

s_norm

norm of dual residual

eps_pri

feasibility tolerance for primal feasibility condition

eps_dual

feasibility tolerance for dual feasibility condition

In accordance with the paper, iteration stops when both r_norm and s_norm values become smaller than eps_pri and eps_dual, respectively.

Author(s)

Xiaozhi Zhu

References

\insertRef

zou_regularization_2005aADMM

See Also

admm.lasso

Examples

## generate underdetermined design matrix
m = 50
n = 100
p = 0.1   # percentange of non-zero elements

x0 = matrix(Matrix::rsparsematrix(n,1,p))
A  = matrix(rnorm(m*n),nrow=m)
for (i in 1:ncol(A)){
  A[,i] = A[,i]/sqrt(sum(A[,i]*A[,i]))
}
b = A%*%x0 + sqrt(0.001)*matrix(rnorm(m))

## run example with both regularization values = 1
output = admm.enet(A, b, lambda1=1, lambda2=1)
niter  = length(output$history$s_norm)
history = output$history

## report convergence plot
opar <- par(no.readonly=TRUE)
par(mfrow=c(1,3))
plot(1:niter, history$objval, "b", main="cost function")
plot(1:niter, history$r_norm, "b", main="primal residual")
plot(1:niter, history$s_norm, "b", main="dual residual")
par(opar)

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