""" ================================================= Pixel importances with a parallel forest of trees ================================================= This example shows the use of forests of trees to evaluate the importance of the pixels in an image classification task (faces). The hotter the pixel, the more important. The code below also illustrates how the construction and the computation of the predictions can be parallelized within multiple jobs. """ print(__doc__) from time import time import pylab as pl from sklearn.datasets import fetch_olivetti_faces from sklearn.ensemble import ExtraTreesClassifier # Number of cores to use to perform parallel fitting of the forest model n_jobs = 1 # Load the faces dataset data = fetch_olivetti_faces() X = data.images.reshape((len(data.images), -1)) y = data.target mask = y < 5 # Limit to 5 classes X = X[mask] y = y[mask] # Build a forest and compute the pixel importances print("Fitting ExtraTreesClassifier on faces data with %d cores..." % n_jobs) t0 = time() forest = ExtraTreesClassifier(n_estimators=1000, max_features=128, n_jobs=n_jobs, random_state=0) forest.fit(X, y) print("done in %0.3fs" % (time() - t0)) importances = forest.feature_importances_ importances = importances.reshape(data.images[0].shape) # Plot pixel importances pl.matshow(importances, cmap=pl.cm.hot) pl.title("Pixel importances with forests of trees") pl.show()