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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

Technical requirements

Although we began the book with a “toy example,” we will be leveraging real datasets throughout this book to be used in specific interpretation use cases. These come from many different sources and are often used only once.

To avoid that, readers spend a lot of time downloading, loading, and preparing datasets for single examples; there’s a library called mldatasets that takes care of most of this. Instructions on how to install this library are located in the Preface. In addition to mldatasets, this chapter’s examples also use the pandas, numpy, statsmodel, sklearn, seaborn, and matplotlib libraries.

The code for this chapter is located here: https://packt.link/DgnVj.