""" ================================================ SVM: Separating hyperplane with weighted classes ================================================ Fit linear SVMs with and without class weighting. Allows to handle problems with unbalanced classes. """ print __doc__ import numpy as np import pylab as pl from scikits.learn import svm # we create 40 separable points np.random.seed(0) n_samples_1 = 1000 n_samples_2 = 100 X = np.r_[1.5*np.random.randn(n_samples_1, 2), 0.5*np.random.randn(n_samples_2, 2) + [2, 2]] y = [0]*(n_samples_1) + [1]*(n_samples_2) # fit the model and get the separating hyperplane clf = svm.SVC(kernel='linear') clf.fit(X, y) w = clf.coef_[0] a = -w[0] / w[1] xx = np.linspace(-5, 5) yy = a * xx - clf.intercept_[0] / w[1] # get the separating hyperplane using weighted classes wclf = svm.SVC(kernel='linear') wclf.fit(X, y, class_weight={1: 10}) ww = wclf.coef_[0] wa = -ww[0] / ww[1] wyy = wa * xx - wclf.intercept_[0] / ww[1] # plot separating hyperplanes and samples pl.set_cmap(pl.cm.Paired) h0 = pl.plot(xx, yy, 'k-') h1 = pl.plot(xx, wyy, 'k--') pl.scatter(X[:,0], X[:,1], c=y) pl.legend((h0, h1), ('no weights', 'with weights')) pl.axis('tight') pl.show()