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Hands-On Explainable AI (XAI) with Python

By : Denis Rothman
Book Image

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

XAI applied to an autopilot decision tree

In this section, we will explain decision trees through scikit-learn's tree module, the decision tree classifier's parameters, and decision tree graphs. The goal is to provide the user with a step-by-step method to explain decision trees.

We will begin by parsing the structure of a decision tree.

Structure of a decision tree

The structure of a decision tree provides precious information for XAI. However, the default values of the decision tree classifier produce confusing outputs. We will first generate a decision tree structure with the default values. Then, we will use a what-if approach that will prepare us for the XAI tools in Chapter 5, Building an Explainable AI Solution from Scratch.

Let's start by implementing the default decision tree structure's output.

The default output of the default structure of a decision tree

The decision tree estimator contains a tree_ object that stores the...