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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

Mission accomplished

It’s often the data that takes the blame for a poor-performing, uninterpretable, or biased model, and that can be true, but many different things can be done in the preparation and model development stages to improve it. To offer an analogy, it’s like baking a cake. You need quality ingredients, yes. But seemingly small differences in the preparation of these ingredients and baking itself—such as the baking temperature, the container used, and time—can make a huge difference. Hell! Even things that are out of your control, such as atmospheric pressure or moisture, can impact baking! Even after it’s all finished, how many different ways can you assess the quality of a cake?

This chapter is about these many details, and, as with baking, they are part exact science and part art form. The concepts discussed in this chapter also have far-reaching consequences, especially regarding how to optimize a problem that doesn’t...