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Interpretable Machine Learning with Python

By : Serg Masís
Book Image

Interpretable Machine Learning with Python

By: Serg Masís

Overview of this book

Do you want to gain a deeper understanding of your models and better mitigate poor prediction risks associated with machine learning interpretation? If so, then Interpretable Machine Learning with Python deserves a place on your bookshelf. We’ll be starting off with the fundamentals of interpretability, its relevance in business, and exploring its key aspects and challenges. As you progress through the chapters, you'll then focus on how white-box models work, compare them to black-box and glass-box models, and examine their trade-off. You’ll also get you up to speed with a vast array of interpretation methods, also known as Explainable AI (XAI) methods, and how to apply them to different use cases, be it for classification or regression, for tabular, time-series, image or text. In addition to the step-by-step code, this book will also help you interpret model outcomes using examples. You’ll get hands-on with tuning models and training data for interpretability by reducing complexity, mitigating bias, placing guardrails, and enhancing reliability. The methods you’ll explore here range from state-of-the-art feature selection and dataset debiasing methods to monotonic constraints and adversarial retraining. By the end of this book, you'll be able to understand ML models better and enhance them through interpretability tuning.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Machine Learning Interpretation
5
Section 2: Mastering Interpretation Methods
12
Section 3:Tuning for Interpretability

Implementing model constraints

We will discuss next how to implement constraints first with XGBoost and all popular tree ensembles, for that matter, because the parameters are named the same (see Figure 12.12). Then, we will do so with TensorFlow Lattice. But before we move forward with any of that, let's remove race from the data, as follows:

X_train_con = X_train.drop(['race'], axis=1).copy()
X_test_con = X_test.drop(['race'], axis=1).copy()

Now, with race out of the picture, the model left to its own devices may still have some bias. However, the feature engineering we performed and the constraints we will place can help align the model against them, given the double standards we found in Chapter 7, Anchor and Counterfactual Explanations. That being said, the resulting model might perform worse against the test data. There are two reasons for this, outlined here:

  • Loss of information: Race, especially through interaction with other features...