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Interpretable Machine Learning with Python

Interpretable Machine Learning with Python - Second Edition

By : Serg Masís
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Interpretable Machine Learning with Python

Interpretable Machine Learning with Python

4.9 (19)
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.
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Monotonic Constraints and Model Tuning for Interpretability

Most model classes have hyperparameters that can be tuned for faster execution speed, increasing predictive performance, and reducing overfitting. One way of reducing overfitting is by introducing regularization into the model training. In Chapter 3, Interpretation Challenges, we called regularization a remedial interpretability property, which reduces complexity with a penalty or limitation that forces the model to learn sparser representations of the inputs. Regularized models generalize better, which is why it is highly recommended to tune models with regularization to avoid overfitting to the training data. As a side effect, regularized models tend to have fewer features and interactions, making the model easier to interpret—less noise means a clearer signal!

And even though there are many hyperparameters, we will only focus on those that improve interpretability by controlling overfitting. Also, to a certain...

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