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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

Technical requirements

Although we began the book with a "toy example," we will be leveraging real datasets throughout this book to be used in specific interpretation use cases. These come from many different sources and are often used only once.

To avoid that, readers spend a lot of time downloading, loading, and preparing datasets for single examples; there's a library called mldatasets that takes care of most of this. Instructions on how to install this library are located in the preface. In addition to mldatasets, this chapter's examples also use the pandas, numpy, statsmodel, sklearn, and matplotlib libraries. The code for this chapter is located here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Interpretable-Machine-Learning-with-Python/tree/master/Chapter02.