On the Self-Penalization Phenomenon in Feature Selection

Michael I. Jordan, Keli Liu, Feng Ruan

We describe an implicit sparsity-inducing mechanism based on minimization over a family of kernels: \begin{equation*} \min_{β, f}~\widehat{\mathbb{E}}[L(Y, f(β^{1/q} \odot X)] + λ_…