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Hands-On Explainable AI (XAI) with Python

By : Denis Rothman
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Hands-On Explainable AI (XAI) with Python

By: Denis Rothman

Overview of this book

Effectively translating AI insights to business stakeholders requires careful planning, design, and visualization choices. Describing the problem, the model, and the relationships among variables and their findings are often subtle, surprising, and technically complex. Hands-On Explainable AI (XAI) with Python will see you work with specific hands-on machine learning Python projects that are strategically arranged to enhance your grasp on AI results analysis. You will be building models, interpreting results with visualizations, and integrating XAI reporting tools and different applications. You will build XAI solutions in Python, TensorFlow 2, Google Cloud’s XAI platform, Google Colaboratory, and other frameworks to open up the black box of machine learning models. The book will introduce you to several open-source XAI tools for Python that can be used throughout the machine learning project life cycle. You will learn how to explore machine learning model results, review key influencing variables and variable relationships, detect and handle bias and ethics issues, and integrate predictions using Python along with supporting the visualization of machine learning models into user explainable interfaces. By the end of this AI book, you will possess an in-depth understanding of the core concepts of XAI.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Anchors AI explanations

Anchors are high-precision model-agnostic explanations. An anchor explanation is a rule or a set of rules. The rule(s) will anchor the explanations locally. Changes to the rest of the feature values will not matter anymore for a specific instance.

The best way to understand anchors is through examples. We will define anchor rules through two examples: predicting income and classifying newsgroup discussions.

We will begin with an income prediction model.

Predicting income

In Chapter 5, Building an Explainable AI Solution from Scratch, we built a solution that could predict income levels.

We found a ground truth that has a strong influence on income: age and level of education are critical features that determine the income level of a person.

The first key feature we found was that age is a key factor when predicting the income of a person, as shown in the following chart:

Figure 11.1: Income by age

The red...