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Recursive feature elimination
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A recursive feature elimination example showing the relevance of pixels in
a digit classification task.

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    See also :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_feature_selection_plot_rfe_with_cross_validation.py`

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    print(__doc__)

    from sklearn.svm import SVC
    from sklearn.datasets import load_digits
    from sklearn.feature_selection import RFE
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    # Load the digits dataset
    digits = load_digits()
    X = digits.images.reshape((len(digits.images), -1))
    y = digits.target

    # Create the RFE object and rank each pixel
    svc = SVC(kernel="linear", C=1)
    rfe = RFE(estimator=svc, n_features_to_select=1, step=1)
    rfe.fit(X, y)
    ranking = rfe.ranking_.reshape(digits.images[0].shape)

    # Plot pixel ranking
    plt.matshow(ranking, cmap=plt.cm.Blues)
    plt.colorbar()
    plt.title("Ranking of pixels with RFE")
    plt.show()


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