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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

The mission

Energy efficiency is a significant concern to consumers that want to spend or pollute less. Therefore, it is in the purview of policymakers, regulators, environmental activists, public health officials, and manufacturers of energy-consuming technologies. In the United States alone, the transportation sector accounted for 28% (https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/transportation.php) of total energy consumption in 2019, of which more than half is consumed by light-duty passenger vehicles. And even though there has been an increase in the USA's electric car fleet over the last decade, most of their electricity still comes from fossil fuel power plants. Ultimately, this means that all passenger vehicles have a carbon footprint regardless of their fuel type.

For this exercise, let's say the US-based consumer advocacy non-profit that you work for has traditionally focused on car safety, and fraudulent sales practices are shifting their attention to energy...