Why must features be scaled before applying L1 or L2 regularisation?
- A The penalty depends on coefficient magnitude, so unscaled features are penalised unequally
- B Regularisation only works on positive values
- C Scaling is required by all models
- D It reduces memory use
Answer
The penalty depends on coefficient magnitude, so unscaled features are penalised unequally
Tree-based models are scale-invariant and do not require it, but distance-based and gradient-descent models generally do.





