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+# Optimization of linear methods
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+The optimization algorithm underlying the implementation is called
+[Orthant-Wise Limited-memory
+QuasiNewton](http://research-srv.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/jfgao/paper/icml07scalable.pdf)
+(OWL-QN). It is an extension of L-BFGS that can effectively handle L1
+regularization and elastic net.