- "\n# RBF SVM parameters\n\n\nThis example illustrates the effect of the parameters ``gamma`` and ``C`` of\nthe Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel SVM.\n\nIntuitively, the ``gamma`` parameter defines how far the influence of a single\ntraining example reaches, with low values meaning 'far' and high values meaning\n'close'. The ``gamma`` parameters can be seen as the inverse of the radius of\ninfluence of samples selected by the model as support vectors.\n\nThe ``C`` parameter trades off correct classification of training examples\nagainst maximization of the decision function's margin. For larger values of\n``C``, a smaller margin will be accepted if the decision function is better at\nclassifying all training points correctly. A lower ``C`` will encourage a\nlarger margin, therefore a simpler decision function, at the cost of training\naccuracy. In other words``C`` behaves as a regularization parameter in the\nSVM.\n\nThe first plot is a visualization of the decision function for a variety of\nparameter values on a simplified classification problem involving only 2 input\nfeatures and 2 possible target classes (binary classification). Note that this\nkind of plot is not possible to do for problems with more features or target\nclasses.\n\nThe second plot is a heatmap of the classifier's cross-validation accuracy as a\nfunction of ``C`` and ``gamma``. For this example we explore a relatively large\ngrid for illustration purposes. In practice, a logarithmic grid from\n$10^{-3}$ to $10^3$ is usually sufficient. If the best parameters\nlie on the boundaries of the grid, it can be extended in that direction in a\nsubsequent search.\n\nNote that the heat map plot has a special colorbar with a midpoint value close\nto the score values of the best performing models so as to make it easy to tell\nthem apart in the blink of an eye.\n\nThe behavior of the model is very sensitive to the ``gamma`` parameter. If\n``gamma`` is too large, the radius of the area of influence of the support\nvectors only includes the support vector itself and no amount of\nregularization with ``C`` will be able to prevent overfitting.\n\nWhen ``gamma`` is very small, the model is too constrained and cannot capture\nthe complexity or \"shape\" of the data. The region of influence of any selected\nsupport vector would include the whole training set. The resulting model will\nbehave similarly to a linear model with a set of hyperplanes that separate the\ncenters of high density of any pair of two classes.\n\nFor intermediate values, we can see on the second plot that good models can\nbe found on a diagonal of ``C`` and ``gamma``. Smooth models (lower ``gamma``\nvalues) can be made more complex by increasing the importance of classifying\neach point correctly (larger ``C`` values) hence the diagonal of good\nperforming models.\n\nFinally one can also observe that for some intermediate values of ``gamma`` we\nget equally performing models when ``C`` becomes very large: it is not\nnecessary to regularize by enforcing a larger margin. The radius of the RBF\nkernel alone acts as a good structural regularizer. In practice though it\nmight still be interesting to simplify the decision function with a lower\nvalue of ``C`` so as to favor models that use less memory and that are faster\nto predict.\n\nWe should also note that small differences in scores results from the random\nsplits of the cross-validation procedure. Those spurious variations can be\nsmoothed out by increasing the number of CV iterations ``n_splits`` at the\nexpense of compute time. Increasing the value number of ``C_range`` and\n``gamma_range`` steps will increase the resolution of the hyper-parameter heat\nmap.\n"
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