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Bias Variance and Regularization

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You're comparing supervised learning models of different complexity and want a principled way to explain why some underfit while others overfit.

Question

Explain the bias-variance tradeoff mathematically and describe how specific regularization techniques (L1 vs. L2) affect model weights.