coursera-ml-007-exercises/ex3/lrCostFunction.m

function [J, grad] = lrCostFunction(theta, X, y, lambda)
%LRCOSTFUNCTION Compute cost and gradient for logistic regression with
%regularization
%   J = LRCOSTFUNCTION(theta, X, y, lambda) computes the cost of using
%   theta as the parameter for regularized logistic regression and the
%   gradient of the cost w.r.t. to the parameters.

% Initialize some useful values
m = length(y); % number of training examples

% You need to return the following variables correctly
J = 0;
grad = zeros(size(theta));

% ====================== YOUR CODE HERE ======================
% Instructions: Compute the cost of a particular choice of theta.
%               You should set J to the cost.
%               Compute the partial derivatives and set grad to the partial
%               derivatives of the cost w.r.t. each parameter in theta
%
% Hint: The computation of the cost function and gradients can be
%       efficiently vectorized. For example, consider the computation
%
%           sigmoid(X * theta)
%
%       Each row of the resulting matrix will contain the value of the
%       prediction for that example. You can make use of this to vectorize
%       the cost function and gradient computations.
%

J = 1/m * (-y'*log(sigmoid(X*theta)) - (1-y)'*log(1-sigmoid(X*theta))) ...
    + lambda/(2*m) * theta(2:end)' * theta(2:end);

% Hint: When computing the gradient of the regularized cost function,
%       there're many possible vectorized solutions, but one solution
%       looks like:
%           grad = (unregularized gradient for logistic regression)
%           temp = theta;
%           temp(1) = 0;   % because we don't add anything for j = 0
%           grad = grad + YOUR_CODE_HERE (using the temp variable)
%

regularization_term = lambda/m * vertcat([0], theta(2:end));
grad = 1/m * X' * (sigmoid(X*theta) - y) + regularization_term;

% =============================================================

grad = grad(:);

end