Source code: lasso_path_with_crossvalidation.py
import numpy as np
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# generate some sparse data to play with
n_samples, n_features = 60, 100
np.random.seed(1)
X = np.random.randn(n_samples, n_features)
coef = 3*np.random.randn(n_features)
coef[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
X_train, y_train = X[:n_samples/2], y[:n_samples/2]
X_test, y_test = X[n_samples/2:], y[n_samples/2:]
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# Lasso with path and cross-validation using optimized_lasso
from scikits.learn.cross_val import KFold
from scikits.learn.glm import optimized_lasso
# Instanciate cross-validation generator
cv = KFold(n_samples/2, 5)
# # Estimate optimized lasso model
lasso_opt = optimized_lasso(X_train, y_train, cv, n_alphas=100, eps=1e-3, maxit=100)
y_ = lasso_opt.predict(X_test)
print lasso_opt
# Compute explained variance on test data
print "r^2 on test data : %f" % (1 - np.linalg.norm(y_test - y_)**2
/ np.linalg.norm(y_test)**2)
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# Lasso with path and cross-validation using LassoCV path
from scikits.learn.glm import LassoCV
lasso_cv = LassoCV()
y_pred = lasso_cv.fit(X_train, y_train).predict(X_test)
print lasso_cv
# Compute explained variance on test data
print "r^2 on test data : %f" % (1 - np.linalg.norm(y_test - y_)**2
/ np.linalg.norm(y_test)**2)