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Interpretable Machine Learning with Python - Second Edition

By : Serg Masís
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Interpretable Machine Learning with Python - Second Edition

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By: Serg Masís

Overview of this book

Interpretable Machine Learning with Python, Second Edition, brings to light the key concepts of interpreting machine learning models by analyzing real-world data, providing you with a wide range of skills and tools to decipher the results of even the most complex models. Build your interpretability toolkit with several use cases, from flight delay prediction to waste classification to COMPAS risk assessment scores. This book is full of useful techniques, introducing them to the right use case. Learn traditional methods, such as feature importance and partial dependence plots to integrated gradients for NLP interpretations and gradient-based attribution methods, such as saliency maps. In addition to the step-by-step code, you’ll get hands-on with tuning models and training data for interpretability by reducing complexity, mitigating bias, placing guardrails, and enhancing reliability. By the end of the book, you’ll be confident in tackling interpretability challenges with black-box models using tabular, language, image, and time series data.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

Understanding the difference between interpretability and explainability

Something you’ve probably noticed when reading the first few pages of this book is that the verbs interpret and explain, as well as the nouns interpretation and explanation, have been used interchangeably. This is not surprising, considering that to interpret is to explain the meaning of something. Despite that, the related terms interpretability and explainability should not be used interchangeably, even though they are often mistaken for synonyms. Most practitioners don’t make any distinction and many academics reverse the definitions provided in this book.

What is interpretability?

Interpretability is the extent to which humans, including non-subject-matter experts, can understand the cause and effect, and input and output, of a machine learning model. To say a model has a high level of interpretability means you can describe in a human-interpretable way its inference. In other words...