Johannes Otterbach

Curve Your Enthusiasm: Concurvity Regularization in Differentiable Generalized Additive Models

Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) have recently experienced a resurgence in popularity due to their interpretability, which arises from expressing the target value as a sum of non-linear transformations of the features. Despite the current enthusiasm for GAMs, their susceptibility to concurvity — i…