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Interpretable Machine Learning with Python

By : Serg Masís
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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

Mission accomplished

The mission was to perform some adversarial robustness tests on the face-mask model to determine if hospital visitors and staff can evade mandatory mask compliance. The base model performed very poorly on many evasion attacks, from the most aggressive to the most subtle.

You also looked at possible defenses to these attacks, such as spatial smoothing and adversarial retraining, and then explored ways to evaluate and certify the robustness of your proposed defenses. You can now provide an end-to-end framework for defending against this kind of attack. That being said, what you did was only a proof of concept (POC).

Next, you can propose training a certifiably robust model against attacks the hospital expects to encounter the most, but first you need the ingredients for a generally robust model. To this end, you will need to take all 210,000 images in the original dataset, make many variations on mask colors and types with them, and augment them even further...