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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

Speculating on the future of ML interpretability

I'm used to hearing the metaphor of this period being the "Wild West of AI", or worse, an "AI Gold Rush"! It conjures images of unexplored and untamed territory being eagerly conquered, or worse, civilized. Yet, in the 19th century, the United States' western areas were not too different from other regions on the planet and had already been inhabited by Native Americans for millennia, so the metaphor doesn't quite work. Predicting with the accuracy and confidence that we can achieve with ML would spook our ancestors and is not a "natural" position for us humans. It's more akin to flying than exploring unknown land.

The article Toward the Jet Age of machine learning (linked in the Further reading section at the end of this chapter) presents a much more fitting metaphor of AI being like the dawn of aviation. It's new and exciting, and people still marvel at what we can do from down...