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Sparse penalties are cast to dense when expanded for categorical features

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Description

As a separate issue, we're still casting sparse penalties to dense when expanding them. It might be worth revisiting.

Originally posted by @lbittarello in https://github.com/Quantco/quantcore.glm/pull/409#pullrequestreview-762388950

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The issue does not name files or tests. Start by tracing how penalties are expanded for categorical features and identify where sparse penalties become dense; done means the expansion preserves sparse penalties without changing the resulting model behavior.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
machine-learning
Issue type
Bug
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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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Needs clarification
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