We provide extremely efficient procedures for fitting the entire lasso or elastic-net regularization path for linear regression (gaussian), multi-task gaussian, logistic and multinomial regression models (grouped or not), Poisson regression and the Cox model. The algorithm uses cyclical coordinate descent in a path-wise fashion. Details may be found in Friedman, Hastie, and Tibshirani (2010), Simon et al. (2011), Tibshirani et al. (2012), Simon, Friedman, and Hastie (2013).
Version 3.0 is a major release with several new features, including:
cv.glmnet
, as well as confusion matrices and ROC plots for classification models;x
input matrix for glmnet
that allow for one-hot-encoding of factor variables, appropriate treatment of missing values, and an option to create a sparse matrix if appropriate.glmnet
.