GATE DA 2026 Q55: Regularised loss for one ridge regression example
- Machine Learning
- 2 marks
- NAT
- No negative marking
Question
Consider that Linear Ridge Regression is being used to learn a prediction function , where and Mean Absolute Error (MAE) is used to measure the prediction error. A weight of 0.20 is associated with the regularizer.
At an intermediate step of the training process, assume that the parameter . In the next step, for the input , the predicted value of is noted. Let the relation between and the true value of be .
The value of the overall regularized loss function for this instance is _______. (Rounded off to two decimal places)
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Answer: 6.9 to 7.1 (official GATE 2026 final answer key)
Concept used: Ridge loss = error + .
First step: and , so MAE ; the penalty is .
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