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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

A business case for interpretability

This section describes several practical business benefits of machine learning interpretability, such as better decisions, as well as being more trusted, ethical, and profitable.

Better decisions

Typically, machine learning models are trained and then evaluated against the desired metrics. If they pass quality control against a hold-out dataset, they are deployed. However, once tested in the real world, things can get wild, as in the following hypothetical scenarios:

  • A high-frequency trading algorithm could single-handedly crash the stock market.
  • Hundreds of smart home devices might inexplicably burst into unprompted laughter, terrifying their users.
  • License-plate recognition systems could incorrectly read a new kind of license plate and fine the wrong drivers.
  • A racially biased surveillance system could incorrectly detect an intruder, and because of this guards shoot an innocent office worker.
  • A self...