""" ====================== SVM with custom kernel ====================== Simple usage of Support Vector Machines to classify a sample. It will plot the decision surface and the support vectors. """ import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np from sklearn import datasets, svm from sklearn.inspection import DecisionBoundaryDisplay # import some data to play with iris = datasets.load_iris() X = iris.data[:, :2] # we only take the first two features. We could # avoid this ugly slicing by using a two-dim dataset Y = iris.target def my_kernel(X, Y): """ We create a custom kernel: (2 0) k(X, Y) = X ( ) Y.T (0 1) """ M = np.array([[2, 0], [0, 1.0]]) return np.dot(np.dot(X, M), Y.T) h = 0.02 # step size in the mesh # we create an instance of SVM and fit out data. clf = svm.SVC(kernel=my_kernel) clf.fit(X, Y) ax = plt.gca() DecisionBoundaryDisplay.from_estimator( clf, X, cmap=plt.cm.Paired, ax=ax, response_method="predict", plot_method="pcolormesh", shading="auto", ) # Plot also the training points plt.scatter(X[:, 0], X[:, 1], c=Y, cmap=plt.cm.Paired, edgecolors="k") plt.title("3-Class classification using Support Vector Machine with custom kernel") plt.axis("tight") plt.show()