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Draw a neural network diagram with matplotlib!
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
def draw_neural_net(ax, left, right, bottom, top, layer_sizes):
'''
Draw a neural network cartoon using matplotilb.
:usage:
>>> fig = plt.figure(figsize=(12, 12))
>>> draw_neural_net(fig.gca(), .1, .9, .1, .9, [4, 7, 2])
:parameters:
- ax : matplotlib.axes.AxesSubplot
The axes on which to plot the cartoon (get e.g. by plt.gca())
- left : float
The center of the leftmost node(s) will be placed here
- right : float
The center of the rightmost node(s) will be placed here
- bottom : float
The center of the bottommost node(s) will be placed here
- top : float
The center of the topmost node(s) will be placed here
- layer_sizes : list of int
List of layer sizes, including input and output dimensionality
'''
n_layers = len(layer_sizes)
v_spacing = (top - bottom)/float(max(layer_sizes))
h_spacing = (right - left)/float(len(layer_sizes) - 1)
# Nodes
for n, layer_size in enumerate(layer_sizes):
layer_top = v_spacing*(layer_size - 1)/2. + (top + bottom)/2.
for m in xrange(layer_size):
circle = plt.Circle((n*h_spacing + left, layer_top - m*v_spacing), v_spacing/4.,
color='w', ec='k', zorder=4)
ax.add_artist(circle)
# Edges
for n, (layer_size_a, layer_size_b) in enumerate(zip(layer_sizes[:-1], layer_sizes[1:])):
layer_top_a = v_spacing*(layer_size_a - 1)/2. + (top + bottom)/2.
layer_top_b = v_spacing*(layer_size_b - 1)/2. + (top + bottom)/2.
for m in xrange(layer_size_a):
for o in xrange(layer_size_b):
line = plt.Line2D([n*h_spacing + left, (n + 1)*h_spacing + left],
[layer_top_a - m*v_spacing, layer_top_b - o*v_spacing], c='k')
ax.add_artist(line)
@ljhuang2017
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ljhuang2017 commented Sep 15, 2017

Topology: 2-2-1
fig66_nn_2_2_1
Topology: 2-2-8-1

fig66_nn_2_2_8_1

Topology: 2-16-16-1

fig66_nn_2_16_16_1

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ljhuang2017 commented Sep 15, 2017

The result hadn't been tuned to the best. Only for demonstrating the plotting network topology using sklearn and matplotlib in Python.
You can tune the parameters of MLPClassifier and test another examples with more inputs (Xs) and outputs (Ys) such as IRIS (X1--X4, Y1--Y3).

@KristobalJunta
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Thanks for the script!
Btw, does this work for both Python 2 and 3? I'd like to suggest specifying it in some kind of comment or a shebang.

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ljhuang2017 commented Sep 17, 2017

Suppose that it can work in Python 2 and Python 3. Here, I employ Python 2.7 to test it. You can try to execute it. You also can modify the X_labels to be the real names (such as from 'X_1', 'X_2' to 'Sepal.Length', 'Sepal.Width'and from y_1, y_2, y_3 to 'Setosa', 'Versicolor' and 'Virginica' by adding some plot.text() commands.

@ryanchesler
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@ljhuang2017 do you have that file available somewhere else? looks like the formatting got kind of borked.

@moritzschaefer
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@ljhuang2017 this looks very nice. Could you just make another gist out of it? Just edit your comment, copy your code and paste it in a new gist. This way people can use your code without the need of reformating it.

@endolith
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I don't think people are notified when you @ them on Gists, and @ljhuang2017 doesn't have any contact information. Did anyone get their code working? Can you post it as your own Gist if so?

@SebastianAvalos
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Many thanks for the script!

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dvgodoy commented Mar 18, 2018

I was able to successfully run @ljhuang2017 code and posted on a new gist
The final result looks like this:
nn_diagram

@chieh-neu
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Thank you for the code, saved me a lot of time drawing it myself.

@gsampath127
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How can i have labels for coefficients and intercepts. I need for demonstration.

Labels(a1,b1,c1,d1 ) etc.. like this

@hbaromega
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@craffel Thanks for the wonderful code. However, the layers get added from top to bottom, not from left to right. This makes me find difficulties in putting separate colors for the nodes in the input, hidden layer, and output! Could that be done? Also, some annotations for the layers?

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ImMamey commented Oct 30, 2023

Halu, I wanted to use these codes, but since I use python3 I needed to change some stuff to make it work.

Thus, I did some minor changes to @dvgodoy gist code, so now it supports python3 and np.array()

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