Using the matrix-vector expression for Lasso regression and dropping the parameter \( 1/n \) in front of the standard means squared error equation, we have the following cost function
$$ C(\boldsymbol{X},\boldsymbol{\beta})=\left\{(\boldsymbol{y}-\boldsymbol{X}\boldsymbol{\beta})^T(\boldsymbol{y}-\boldsymbol{X}\boldsymbol{\beta})\right\}+\lambda\vert\vert\boldsymbol{\beta}\vert\vert_1, $$Taking the derivative with respect to \( \boldsymbol{\beta} \) and recalling that the derivative of the absolute value is (we drop the boldfaced vector symbol for simplicty)
$$ \frac{d \vert \beta\vert}{d \boldsymbol{\beta}}=\mathrm{sgn}(\boldsymbol{\beta})=\left\{\begin{array}{cc} 1 & \beta > 0 \\ 0 & \beta =0\\-1 & \beta < 0, \end{array}\right. $$we have that the derivative of the cost function is
$$ \frac{\partial C(\boldsymbol{X},\boldsymbol{\beta})}{\partial \boldsymbol{\beta}}=-2\boldsymbol{X}^T(\boldsymbol{y}-\boldsymbol{X}\boldsymbol{\beta})+\lambda sgn(\boldsymbol{\beta})=0, $$and reordering we have
$$ \boldsymbol{X}^T\boldsymbol{X}\boldsymbol{\beta})+\lambda sgn(\boldsymbol{\beta})=2\boldsymbol{X}^T(\boldsymbol{y}. $$This equation does not lead to a nice analytical equation as in either Ridge regression or ordinary least squares. This equation can however be solved by using standard convex optimization algorithms using for example the Python package CVXOPT. We will discuss this later.