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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 approach

You have decided to take a three-fold approach, as follows:

  • Placing guardrails with feature engineering: Leveraging lessons learned in Chapter 6, Anchors and Counterfactual Explanations, as well as the domain knowledge we already have about priors and age, in particular, we will engineer some features.
  • Tuning models for interpretability: Once the data is ready, we will tune many models with different class weighting and overfitting prevention techniques. These methods will ensure that the models not only generalize better but are also easier to interpret.
  • Implementing model constraints: Last but not least, we will implement monotonic and interaction constraints on the best models to make sure that they don’t stray from trusted and fair interactions.

In the last two sections, we will make sure the models perform accurately and fairly. We will also compare recidivism risk distributions between the data and the model to ensure that...