ording to [1], the maximum of the L2 penalized likelihood automatically satisfies the symmetric constraint: sum(coef_k, k=1..c) = 0 Further details can be found in [2]. Reference --------- .. [1] :doi:`Zhu, Ji and Trevor J. Hastie. "Classification of gene microarrays by penalized logistic regression". Biostatistics 5 3 (2004): 427-43. <10.1093/biostatistics/kxg046>` .. [2] :arxiv:`Noah Simon and Jerome Friedman and Trevor Hastie. (2013) "A Blockwise Descent Algorithm for Group-penalized Multiresponse and Multinomial Regression". <1311.6529>` r,