plot_rfe_with_cross_validation.py

"""
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Recursive feature elimination with cross-validation
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A recursive feature elimination example with automatic tuning of the
number of features selected with cross-validation.

"""

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from sklearn.svm import SVC
from sklearn.model_selection import StratifiedKFold
from sklearn.feature_selection import RFECV
from sklearn.datasets import make_classification

# Build a classification task using 3 informative features
X, y = make_classification(
    n_samples=1000,
    n_features=25,
    n_informative=3,
    n_redundant=2,
    n_repeated=0,
    n_classes=8,
    n_clusters_per_class=1,
    random_state=0,
)

# Create the RFE object and compute a cross-validated score.
svc = SVC(kernel="linear")
# The "accuracy" scoring shows the proportion of correct classifications

min_features_to_select = 1  # Minimum number of features to consider
rfecv = RFECV(
    estimator=svc,
    step=1,
    cv=StratifiedKFold(2),
    scoring="accuracy",
    min_features_to_select=min_features_to_select,
)
rfecv.fit(X, y)

print("Optimal number of features : %d" % rfecv.n_features_)

# Plot number of features VS. cross-validation scores
plt.figure()
plt.xlabel("Number of features selected")
plt.ylabel("Cross validation score (accuracy)")
plt.plot(
    range(min_features_to_select, len(rfecv.grid_scores_) + min_features_to_select),
    rfecv.grid_scores_,
)
plt.show()