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by throwaway283719 4369 days ago
No. L2 regularization (ridge regression) also has an analytical solution, and L1 regularization (lasso) can be more efficiently solved using the LARS (least-angle regression) algorithm.

Gradient descent would work for ridge regression (it would just be slow). It wouldn't even work for lasso, because the penalty function isn't differentiable at the origin.