""" ===================== SVM: Weighted samples ===================== Plot decision function of a weighted dataset, where the size of points is proportional to its weight. """ print __doc__ import numpy as np import pylab as pl from scikits.learn import svm # we create 20 points np.random.seed(0) X = np.r_[np.random.randn(10, 2) + [1, 1], np.random.randn(10, 2)] Y = [1]*10 + [-1]*10 sample_weight = 100 * np.abs(np.random.randn(20)) # and assign a bigger weight to the last 10 samples sample_weight[:10] *= 10 # # fit the model clf = svm.SVC() clf.fit(X, Y, sample_weight=sample_weight) # plot the decision function xx, yy = np.meshgrid(np.linspace(-4, 5, 500), np.linspace(-4, 5, 500)) Z = clf.decision_function(np.c_[xx.ravel(), yy.ravel()]) Z = Z.reshape(xx.shape) # plot the line, the points, and the nearest vectors to the plane pl.set_cmap(pl.cm.bone) pl.contourf(xx, yy, Z, alpha=0.75) pl.scatter(X[:, 0], X[:, 1], c=Y, s=sample_weight, alpha=0.9) pl.axis('off') pl.show()