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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

The mission

The issue of algorithmic fairness is one with massive social implications, from the allocation of welfare resources to the prioritization of life-saving surgeries to screening job applications. These machine learning algorithms can determine a person’s livelihood or life, and it’s often the most marginalized and vulnerable populations that get the worst treatment from these algorithms because they perpetuate systemic biases learned from the data. Therefore, it’s poorer families that get misclassified for child abuse; it’s racial-minority people who get underprioritized for medical treatment; and it’s women who get screened out of high-paying tech jobs. Even in cases involving less immediate and individualized risks such as online searches, Twitter/X bots, and social media profiles, societal prejudices such as elitism, racism, sexism, and ageism are reinforced.

This chapter will continue on the mission from Chapter 6, Anchors and Counterfactual...