Exercise

Using regularization in XGBoost

Having seen an example of l1 regularization in the video, you'll now vary the l2 regularization penalty - also known as "lambda" - and see its effect on overall model performance on the Ames housing dataset.

Instructions

100 XP

Create your DMatrix from X and y as before.
Create an initial parameter dictionary specifying an "objective" of "reg:linear" and "max_depth" of 3.
Use xgb.cv() inside of a for loop and systematically vary the "lambda" value by passing in the current l2 value (reg).
Append the "test-rmse-mean" from the last boosting round for each cross-validated xgboost model.
Hit 'Submit Answer' to view the results. What do you notice?

Take Hint (-30 XP)