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Classifier comparison¶
A comparison of several classifiers on low-dimensional synthetic datasets, adapted to SPD matrices from [1]. The point of this example is to illustrate the nature of decision boundaries of different classifiers, used with different metrics [2]. This should be taken with a grain of salt, as the intuition conveyed by these examples does not necessarily carry over to real datasets.
The 3D plots show training matrices in solid colors and testing matrices semi-transparent. The lower right shows the classification accuracy on the test set.
# Authors: Quentin Barthélemy
#
# License: BSD (3-clause)
from functools import partial
from time import time
import warnings
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.colors import ListedColormap
import numpy as np
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from pyriemann.classification import (
MDM,
KNearestNeighbor,
SVC,
)
from pyriemann.datasets import make_matrices, make_gaussian_blobs
@partial(np.vectorize, excluded=["clf"])
def get_proba(cov_00, cov_01, cov_11, clf):
cov = np.array([[cov_00, cov_01], [cov_01, cov_11]])
with warnings.catch_warnings():
warnings.simplefilter("ignore", category=RuntimeWarning)
try:
return clf.predict_proba(cov[np.newaxis, ...])[0, 1]
except ValueError:
return np.nan
def plot_classifiers(metric):
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(12, 10))
fig.suptitle(f"Classifiers with metric='{metric}'", fontsize=16)
i = 1
# iterate over datasets
for i_dataset, (X, y) in enumerate(datasets):
print(f"Dataset n°{i_dataset+1}")
# split dataset into training and test part
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(
X, y, test_size=0.4, random_state=42
)
x_min, x_max = X[:, 0, 0].min(), X[:, 0, 0].max()
y_min, y_max = X[:, 0, 1].min(), X[:, 0, 1].max()
z_min, z_max = X[:, 1, 1].min(), X[:, 1, 1].max()
# just plot the dataset first
ax = plt.subplot(n_datasets, n_classifs + 1, i, projection="3d")
if i_dataset == 0:
ax.set_title("Input matrices")
# plot the training matrices
ax.scatter(
X_train[:, 0, 0],
X_train[:, 0, 1],
X_train[:, 1, 1],
c=y_train,
cmap=cm_bright,
edgecolors="k"
)
# plot the testing matrices
ax.scatter(
X_test[:, 0, 0],
X_test[:, 0, 1],
X_test[:, 1, 1],
c=y_test,
cmap=cm_bright,
alpha=0.6,
edgecolors="k"
)
ax.set_xlim(x_min, x_max)
ax.set_ylim(y_min, y_max)
ax.set_zlim(z_min, z_max)
ax.set_xticklabels(())
ax.set_yticklabels(())
ax.set_zticklabels(())
i += 1
rx = np.arange(x_min, x_max, (x_max - x_min) / 50)
ry = np.arange(y_min, y_max, (y_max - y_min) / 50)
rz = np.arange(z_min, z_max, (z_max - z_min) / 50)
# iterate over classifiers
for name, clf in zip(names, classifs):
clf.set_params(**{"metric": metric})
t0 = time()
clf.fit(X_train, y_train)
t1 = time() - t0
t0 = time()
score = clf.score(X_test, y_test)
t2 = time() - t0
print(
f" {name}:\n training time={t1:.5f}\n test time ={t2:.5f}"
)
ax = plt.subplot(n_datasets, n_classifs + 1, i, projection="3d")
# plot the decision boundaries for horizontal 2D planes going
# through the mean value of the third coordinates
xx, yy = np.meshgrid(rx, ry)
zz = get_proba(xx, yy, X[:, 1, 1].mean()*np.ones_like(xx), clf=clf)
zz = np.ma.masked_where(~np.isfinite(zz), zz)
ax.contourf(xx, yy, zz, zdir="z", offset=z_min, cmap=cm, alpha=0.5)
xx, zz = np.meshgrid(rx, rz)
yy = get_proba(xx, X[:, 0, 1].mean()*np.ones_like(xx), zz, clf=clf)
yy = np.ma.masked_where(~np.isfinite(yy), yy)
ax.contourf(xx, yy, zz, zdir="y", offset=y_max, cmap=cm, alpha=0.5)
yy, zz = np.meshgrid(ry, rz)
xx = get_proba(X[:, 0, 0].mean()*np.ones_like(yy), yy, zz, clf=clf)
xx = np.ma.masked_where(~np.isfinite(xx), xx)
ax.contourf(xx, yy, zz, zdir="x", offset=x_min, cmap=cm, alpha=0.5)
# plot the training matrices
ax.scatter(
X_train[:, 0, 0],
X_train[:, 0, 1],
X_train[:, 1, 1],
c=y_train,
cmap=cm_bright,
edgecolors="k"
)
# plot the testing matrices
ax.scatter(
X_test[:, 0, 0],
X_test[:, 0, 1],
X_test[:, 1, 1],
c=y_test,
cmap=cm_bright,
edgecolors="k",
alpha=0.6
)
if i_dataset == 0:
ax.set_title(name)
ax.text(
1.3 * x_max,
y_min,
z_min,
("%.2f" % score).lstrip("0"),
size=15,
horizontalalignment="right",
verticalalignment="bottom"
)
ax.set_xlim(x_min, x_max)
ax.set_ylim(y_min, y_max)
ax.set_zlim(z_min, z_max)
ax.set_xticks(())
ax.set_yticks(())
ax.set_zticks(())
i += 1
plt.show()
Classifiers and Datasets¶
names = [
"MDM",
"k-NN",
"SVC",
]
classifs = [
MDM(),
KNearestNeighbor(n_neighbors=3),
SVC(),
]
n_classifs = len(classifs)
rs = np.random.RandomState(2022)
n_matrices, n_channels = 50, 2
y = np.concatenate([np.zeros(n_matrices), np.ones(n_matrices)])
datasets = [
(
np.concatenate([
make_matrices(
n_matrices, n_channels, "spd", rs, evals_low=10, evals_high=14
),
make_matrices(
n_matrices, n_channels, "spd", rs, evals_low=13, evals_high=17
)
]),
y
),
(
np.concatenate([
make_matrices(
n_matrices, n_channels, "spd", rs, evals_low=10, evals_high=14
),
make_matrices(
n_matrices, n_channels, "spd", rs, evals_low=11, evals_high=15
)
]),
y
),
make_gaussian_blobs(
2*n_matrices, n_channels, random_state=rs, class_sep=1., class_disp=.5,
n_jobs=4
),
make_gaussian_blobs(
2*n_matrices, n_channels, random_state=rs, class_sep=.5, class_disp=.5,
n_jobs=4
)
]
n_datasets = len(datasets)
cm = plt.cm.RdBu
cm_bright = ListedColormap(["#FF0000", "#0000FF"])
Classifiers with affine-invariant Riemannian metric¶
plot_classifiers("riemann")

Dataset n°1
MDM:
training time=0.00193
test time =0.00122
k-NN:
training time=0.00004
test time =0.00770
SVC:
training time=0.00242
test time =0.00108
Dataset n°2
MDM:
training time=0.00180
test time =0.00116
k-NN:
training time=0.00003
test time =0.00794
SVC:
training time=0.00270
test time =0.00112
Dataset n°3
MDM:
training time=0.00308
test time =0.00112
k-NN:
training time=0.00003
test time =0.01717
SVC:
training time=0.00369
test time =0.00115
Dataset n°4
MDM:
training time=0.00343
test time =0.00109
k-NN:
training time=0.00003
test time =0.01711
SVC:
training time=0.00366
test time =0.00118
Classifiers with Euclidean metric¶
plot_classifiers("euclid")

Dataset n°1
MDM:
training time=0.00031
test time =0.00093
k-NN:
training time=0.00004
test time =0.00278
SVC:
training time=0.00103
test time =0.00086
Dataset n°2
MDM:
training time=0.00032
test time =0.00092
k-NN:
training time=0.00003
test time =0.00276
SVC:
training time=0.00109
test time =0.00082
Dataset n°3
MDM:
training time=0.00031
test time =0.00085
k-NN:
training time=0.00003
test time =0.00455
SVC:
training time=0.00133
test time =0.00090
Dataset n°4
MDM:
training time=0.00032
test time =0.00091
k-NN:
training time=0.00003
test time =0.00469
SVC:
training time=0.00123
test time =0.00086
References¶
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