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Interpretable Machine Learning with Python - Second Edition

By : Serg Masís
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Book Image

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

Speculating on the future of ML interpretability

I’m used to hearing the metaphor of this period being the “Wild West of AI”, or worse, an “AI Gold Rush!” It conjures images of an unexplored and untamed territory being eagerly conquered, or worse, civilized. Yet, in the 19th century, the United States western areas were not too different from other regions on the planet and had already been inhabited by Native Americans for millennia, so the metaphor doesn’t quite work. Predicting with the accuracy and confidence that we can achieve with ML would spook our ancestors and is not a “natural” position for us humans. It’s more akin to flying than exploring unknown land.

The article Toward the Jet Age of machine learning (linked in the Further reading section at the end of this chapter) presents a much more fitting metaphor of AI being like the dawn of aviation. It’s new and exciting, and people still marvel at what...